ROBERTSON, William.

L'Histoire de L'Amérique ... Traduite de l'Anglais.Paris, Panckoucke, 1778. 12mo. 4 volumes. With 4 title-pages, each with a different woodcut vignette, 4 folding engraved maps and one engraved plate of heiroglyphics. Contemporary French calf, gold-tooled spines with red morocco labels, marbled endpapers and edges.

(3), (1 blank), 34, 400; (2), 653; (2), 586; 493, (6) pp. Cf. JCB 2509 (1778 Panckoucke 4to ed.); Leclerc 516 (1778 Panckoucke 4to ed.); Sabin 71991 (1788 Neufchatel 12mo ed. and 1778-1780 Panckoucke 12mo ed.); for Robertson and his history of America: American Anthropologist 62 (1960), 648-655.A French translation, published one year after the first English edition, of an immensely popular anthropological account of American history that focuses on the explorations, the conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the anthropology of the indigenous American cultures. With a remarkable list of cited sources in volume IV, one map in each volume and one folding engraved plate with hieroglyphs in volume IV. The pagination and signatures of the preliminary quire "a" in volume I are irregular.In volume IV, quire P is misbound so that pages 341 and 342 (P3) fall between pages 354 and 355 (P9 and P10). With some small nicks and tears throughout, affecting the text in 1 leaf, but still a good copy. With some cracks in the hinges and other minor damage to the backstrips, but binding also good. An account of American history from the explorations to the mid-eighteenth century.

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