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Histoire de l'Amérique
1779, Chez D.J. Changuion
in French
- Nouvelle edition. / Revue, corrigée & augmentée d'après la seconde edition angloise & enrichie des cartes nécessaires.
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Translation of: The history of America, first printed London, 1777.
The translation of Suard and Jansen (Paris, Panckoucke, 1777)--revised and compared with the 2d English ed. by Dérival de Gomicourt. Cf. Quérard, La France littéraire.
Pagination: v. 1: XXXVI, 315, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 504 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 3: [4], 408, 405-452 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v. 4: [4], 381, [3] p., [2] folded leaves of plates.
Signatures: v. 1: *⁶ (1, 2 versos blank) ¹² A-N¹² Q²; v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-V¹² X¹²; v. 3: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-T¹²; v. 4: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-Q¹² (Q11 verso, Q12 blank)
Includes indexes at the end of volumes 2 and 4.
Title pages printed in red and black; engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces.
Includes 5 folded maps, numbered I-V: "Carte du Golfe du Mexique, des isles et des pays adjacens. Pour l'Histoire de l'Amerique par le Dr. Robinson", folded map, bound to face p. [1], 2nd count in volume 1, "Carte de l'Amerique meridionale. Pour l'Histoire de l'Amerique. Par le Dr. Robertson", bound to face p. [1], 2nd count, in volume 2, "Carte du Mexique ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, ou l'on peut suivre les mouvemens des côstes. Pour l'Histoire de l'Amérique. Par le Dr. Robertson", bound to face p. [1], 2nd count, in volume 3, "Carte des pays situés sur la mer du sud, depuis Panama, jusqu'à Guaijaquil, pour l'Histoire de L'Amérique, par le Dr. Robertson", bound to face p. [1], 2nd count, in volume 4, all are engraved by H. Klockhoff; also includes "Table chronologique des Méxicains", an unsigned, engraved plate depicting Maya hieroglyphies and images, bound to face p. 275, in volume 4.
"Catalogue des livres et manuscrits espagnols, que M. Robertson cite dans cette histoire": v. 4, p. [339]-357.
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 71991.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary stiff marbled wrappers; rear wrapper and final gathering of volume 3 fully detached.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Frederick Lippitt Fund.
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