GUYON abbé Claude-Marie Histoire des Indes orientales, anciennes et modernes.

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Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1744

3 volumes, 12mo (164 x 94 mm) 11 nn.ll., 396 pp., 1 engraved folding plate for volume I; 1 nn.l., 353 pp., 1 engraved folding map for volume II; 1 nn.l., 475 pp. (misnumbered 471), 4 nn.ll., for volume III. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands.

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800,00 

1 in stock

INED, 2217.

First edition.

The first volume deals with the ancient Indies, the second with the modern Indies, and the third is entirely devoted to trade: spices, drugs, cottons, taffetas, etc. Guyon studies the trade of the Indies with the various European powers: Portugal, Holland, England, Denmark, the Venetian Republic and France.

A fine copy.

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