MARMONTEL, Jean-François.

Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du Pérou.

Paris, Lacombe, 1777. 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm), pp. xii, 338, [2]; [iv], 380, [4], with a frontispiece and ten plates; half-titles present; contemporary tree calf; joints cracking; gilt edges. First edition. ‘Bella y estimada edición’ (Palau). An account of the Spanish empire in Peru based on the works of Las Casas and the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega which praises Las Casas and traces the cruelties in Spanish America to the religious fanaticism of the invaders. Marmontel, a prolific writer and protégé of Voltaire’s, wrote this work in response to the censure he received from the Sorbonne and the archbishop of Paris after he published a romance, Bélisaire (1767), with a chapter in favour of religious toleration.Bartlett (JCB) 2402; Cohen 690; Hill 1084; Palau 152444; Sabin 44652.

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