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[BEVERLEY (Robert)]. History of Virginia. À Paris, chez Pier - Lot 9
[BEVERLEY (Robert)]. History of Virginia. À Paris, chez Pierre Ribou, 1707. In-12, (8 of which the second and last are blank)-416-(20 of which the last 2 are blank) pp. folding table printed out of text paginated 417, grained brown calf; binding rubbed with missing jaws, worn headbands and corners (period binding).
FIRST EDITION OF THE FRENCH TRANSLATION of this work originally published in English in London in 1705.
14 hors texte copper-engraved plates depicting Indians. Without frontispiece.
FIRST DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA TO BE PUBLISHED BY AN AUTHOR WHO WAS ORIGINAL TO IT, offering a valuable account of the colonists and the Indian tribes who lived there.
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