LAFITAU (Joseph François). HISTOIRE des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde. A Paris. 1733.

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LAFITAU (Joseph François)
HISTOIRE des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde. Avec des Figures em taille-douce. A Paris: Saugrin Pere & Jean Baptiste Coignard Fils, 1733.

2 v.: 4.º; []3, ã,ē, ī, A-Z, Aa-Zz, AAa, ZZz, AAaa-OOoo4, [6], xxiv, 616, [48] pp., 9 gravs.; []1, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Zzz, Aaaa-Zzzz, Aaaaaa-Eeeeee4, Ffffff2, [2], 693, [89] pp., 7 grav.

FIRST edition of this esteemed work on the Portuguese Discoveries, illustrated with sixteen folding engravings. Joseph François Lafitau (1681-1746), a Jesuit, distinguished himself in his Mission in Canada, studying in depth the Iroquois Indian tribe. Returning to France, where he never left, he devoted himself to writing several works, including the present one. Very rare.

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