Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(PARAGUAY.) Histoire de Nicolas I, Roy du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus. 117 pages. 12mo, later full morocco; possibly made up from two copies--the first 4 gatherings are foxed, while the last is bright but heavily wormed with some repairs. Saint Paul [France?], 1756

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First or second edition. "This curious little book, a veritable novel of adventure, is considered to be an anti-Jesuit pamphlet. . . . It is the first time that the bandeirantes of Piratininga served as the theme for a novel"--Borba de Moraes, page I:404. Palau 114986.