The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst many other New, Curious, and Interesting Particulars of that Country, a full and authentic account of the Establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the Savage Natives, in the very Centre of Barbarism: Establishments allowed to have realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas More, and Plato. Written originally in French, by the celebrated Father Charlevoix. [Two Volumes]

Charlevoix, [Pierre-François Xavier de]

Published by Printed for Lockyer Davis, London, 1769

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vii, 463 pp.; viii, 415 pp. (v.1 pages 261, 349, and 432 misnumbered 621, 149, and 442 and v. 2, pages 176 and 301 misnumbered 167 and 331). 8vo. "The most complete and satisfactory work on Paraguay, and the only one in which the vast system of the Jesuits is fully developed, the position of the author affording him peculiar opportunities for its examination." (Cox quoting Maggs). This English language vesion is an abridgment of the larger work in French. Provenance: Samuel G. Arnold (1821-1880) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and president of the Rhode Island Historical Society (signatures from original endpapers laid in loose). Sabin 12133. Palau 67171. Cox II: 282. Field 284. JCB III:1663. Jones 811. A near fine set, a few mostly marginal worm holes to the last few leaves of each volume, partially affecting a few letters of text. Period style gray paper-covered boards with printed spine labels. Seller Inventory # 38870

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Title: The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst ...

Publisher: Printed for Lockyer Davis, London

Publication Date: 1769

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First English Language edition.