Sabin, 12130; De Backer & Sommervogel, II, p. 1079.<\/i><\/p>\n
Fine illustrated edition in small format, published one year after the first.<\/p>\n
“Charlevoix\u2019s last published history, his Histoire du Paraguay (1756), became the most widely distributed of all his works, being eventually translated into English, Latin, German, and Spanish. Appearing at the precise time when the role of the Society of Jesus was being questioned in both Europe and America, it has remained the classic defence of the Jesuit administration in Paraguay” (Dict. of Canadian Biography).<\/p>\n
Fine copy, complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
6 volumes, 12mo (167 x 96 mm) 2 nn.ll., 390 pp., 1 nn.l., 1 engraved folding map for volume I; 2 nn.ll., 476 pp., 1 engraved folding map for volume II; 2 nn.ll., 407 pp., 1 engraved folding map for volume III; 2 nn.ll., 414 pp., 1 nn.l., 1 engraved folding map for volume IV; 2 nn.ll., 461 pp., 1 nn.l. for volume V; 2 nn.ll., 460 pp., 3 engraved folding maps for volume VI. Contemporary marbled sheep, flat spine gilt, red edges (light wear to head of volume VI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1381],"class_list":{"0":"post-75381","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-paraguay-2","8":"pa_auteur-charlevoix-pierre-francois-xavier-de-2","9":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier de CHARLEVOIX","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Didot, Giffart, Nyon, 1757","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n