CHARLEVOIX Pierre-François-Xavier de Histoire de l’Isle espagnole ou de S. Domingue. Ecrites particulièrement sur les Mémoires Manuscrits du P. Jean-Baptiste Le Pers, Jésuite, Missionnaire à Saint Domingue, & sur les Pièces Originales, qui se conservent au Dépôt de la Marine.

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Amsterdam, L’Honoré, 1733

4 volumes, 12mo (160 x 198 mm) engraved frontispiece, title, XXIV, 292 pp., for volume I; engraved frontispiece, title, XIV, 390 pp. for volume II; engraved frontispiece, XII pp. (including title), 302 pp. for volume III; engraved frontispiece, title, XII, 429 pp. for volume IV. Contemporary vellum, red morocco spine lables added in the 19th century.

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2000,00 

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Sabin, 12128 ; Palau, 67166 ; Leclerc, 1372 ; see de Backer-Sommervogel, II, 1076 (for the 4to edition).

First 12mo edition, published after the original quarto edition from 1731.

It is profusely illustrated with 4 (repeated) engraved frontispieces and 20 plates (including 18 maps and plans).

Nice and crisp copy.

Book plate of Château de Rosny.

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