Nov 06, 2014 - Sale 2364

Sale 2364 - Lot 163

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(VIRGINIA.) [Beverley, Robert.] Histoire de la Virginie. 14 plates including engraved additional title page, folding table. 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, worn and frayed; moderate foxing, minor wear, dealer description on front pastedown, endpapers worn; signed by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Labat on title page. Amsterdam: Lombrail, 1707

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first french edition, per European Americana. "After John Smith, the first account of this colony, the first one penned by a native and the best contemporary record of its native tribes"--Howes B410. European Americana 707/18; Sabin 5116; Vail 300.