Buy this book on-line Joseph Francois Lafitau : Histoire des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde, Avec des Figures en taille-douce, Par le R.P. Joseph Francois Lafitau de la Compagnie de JesusSaugrain & Coignard, Paris, c. 1733.
Recent full calf with fine gilt border, spine in six blind-tooled compartments of raised gilt bands, brown morocco labels on two and four, edges tinted red, endpapers renewed to match boards. , Occasionabrowning, mispagination with Vol 1 pp. 137-144 which are marked as “167-174”, foliation is constant and text is not affected, and pagination is uninterrupted from pp. 145 onward. A very good copy of this influential travel narrative, plates and map have strong impressions., 4to., P. Volume 1. (6), blank, frontis, title, blank, dedication (3), blank, preface i-xxiv, 1-136, “167-174”, 145-616, index (45), blank, (4); Volume 2. (6), title, blank, 1-693, index (85), privilege (2), errata (2), (6)., Complete with 15 copper engraved plates and one folding map of the world tracking the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Cabral and Magellan., Volume : Two Volumes. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Joseph Francois Lafitau : Histoire des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde, Avec des Figures en taille-douce, Par le R.P. Joseph Francois Lafitau de la Compagnie de Jesus. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, collectables, first editions, livres d'occasion and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |