£4,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 589
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Paris: Francois Huby, 1614. First edition ['Ciel' as final word on a2, 'con-' as final word on a6, leaf 395 unnumbered, final table printed in single columns], 8vo , collates: a8, A8-3E8, 7 full-page engravings, woodcut initials, contemporary vellum, titled in ink to the spine, title-page lacking and supplied in facsimile, errata leaf lacking, a duplicate of leaf B4 replaces H8, leaf A2 with a c.3" incision not affecting text. some minor loss to leaf E8
Note: A highly unusual book and one of the first books to be published on European colonisation in Brazil. Alfred Métraux and Jacques Lafaye write that there are now no more than 10 copies of this original edition, published by Huby in Paris, in the world.