Paris: Lacombe, 1777. Binding: contemporary paper wraps, flat spine with paper label., Notes: Text in French
Jean François Marmontel was a French historian and writer. The author was elected to the Académie française in 1763. In 1767 he published Bélisaire, now remarkable in part because of a chapter on religious toleration which incurred the censure of the Sorbonne and the archbishop of Paris. Marmontel retorted in Les Incas by tracing the cruelties in Spanish America to the religious fanaticism of the invaders., Size: 8vo, Illustration: . 11 plates, including the frontis. The plates are by de Launay, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, Leveau, Née and Simonet, are after designs by Jean Michel Moreau Le Jeune., Volume: 2, References: Sabin 44652; Spain and Spanish America in the University of California Vol 1. pg. 422, Pages: Volume 1. P. half-title, blank, frontis, title, blank, v-lvi, 1-311; Volume 2. P. half-title, blank, frontis, 1-367, (4), Category: Book Americas South. Occasional mild browning otherwise a good copy, uncut in original publishers wraps. Item #B2606

Binding: contemporary paper wraps, flat spine with paper label., Notes: Text in French
Jean François Marmontel was a French historian and writer. The author was elected to the Académie française in 1763. In 1767 he published Bélisaire, now remarkable in part because of a chapter on religious toleration which incurred the censure of the Sorbonne and the archbishop of Paris. Marmontel retorted in Les Incas by tracing the cruelties in Spanish America to the religious fanaticism of the invaders., Size: 8vo, Illustration: . 11 plates, including the frontis. The plates are by de Launay, Duclos, de Ghendt, Helman, Leveau, Née and Simonet, are after designs by Jean Michel Moreau Le Jeune., Volume: 2, References: Sabin 44652; Spain and Spanish America in the University of California Vol 1. pg. 422, Pages: Volume 1. P. half-title, blank, frontis, title, blank, v-lvi, 1-311; Volume 2. P. half-title, blank, frontis, 1-367, (4), Category: Book Americas South.

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