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8vo. 2 volumes: vii, 463; viii, 415 pp. Contemporary flame calf (joints cracked and a little eroded), leather spine labels (rubbed). A solid copy. First Dublin edition, originally published in French in 1757; the first edition in English appeared in London in 1769). With the book label of William Tatham in each volume; Tatham was well known for his work in the tobacco business in North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee in the late 18th century and he published an important book on the subject in 1800.
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A near fine set, a few mostly marginal worm holes to the last few leaves of each volume, partially affecting a few letters of text. vii, 463 pp.; viii, 415 pp. (v.1 pages 261, 349, and 432 misnumbered 621, 149, and 442 and v. 2, pages 176 and 301 misnumbered 167 and 331). 8vo. "The most complete and satisfactory work on Paraguay, and the only one in which the vast system of the Jesuits is fully developed, the position of the author affording him peculiar opportunities for its examination." (Cox quoting Maggs). This English language vesion is an abridgment of the larger work in French. Provenance: Samuel G. Arnold (1821-1880) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and president of the Rhode Island Historical Society (signatures from original endpapers laid in loose). Sabin 12133. Palau 67171. Cox II: 282. Field 284. JCB III: 1663. Jones 811.
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