MAFFEI, Jean Pierre.

L'Histoire des Indes Orientales et Occidentales.

Paris, Robert de Ninville, 1665. 2 parts in 1 volume in-4° (250 x 175 mm.). I Part: 16 unnumb. ff.;292 pp., 11 unnumb. ff. II Part: 2 unnumb. ff., 353 pp.; contemporary full leather, upper joint broken, lower joint worn. Second French translation of the Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI, done by Abb Michel de Pure. This work mentions the discoveries and conquests done by portugueses and castilians in Asia, Africa and America. With many historical, politic, economic and religious references. The part of America is mostly about Brazil, describing it very accurately. Paper lightly brownished, title page and first folio with small hole on lower margin not affecting the text, last folio with worm hole in the inner margin no affecting the text. However good copy. Backer-Sommervogel, V, 299. Sabin, 43783. Palau, 146699. Brunet, III, 1291. Borba de Moraes, 509.

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