Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 385

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(EARLY EXPLORATION.) Lafitau, Joseph François. Histoire des Découvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde. Folding map, 13 plates, lacking both frontispieces. [6], xxiv, 616, [47]; [2], 693, [89] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, front boards detached; faint dampstaining in second volume; early owner's signatures on title pages, inked stamps of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary on front pastedowns and first title page. Paris, 1733
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first edition of a history of the Portuguese explorations of the 15th and 16th centuries, mostly in Asia and Africa, though touching on Brazil. Borba de Moraes, page I:453; European Americana 733/146; Sabin 38591.