Histoire du Paraguay. / Par le R.P. Pierre Fraņcois-Xavier de Charlevoix, ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761.

Contributor:

Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752.

Quiroga, José, 1707?-1784.

Cardiel, José, 1704-1781.

Language:

French

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Paraguay.

Jesuits.

Paraguay.

Paraguay--History--To 1811.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Jocelyn, John, Hon. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations, maps, plans ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

A Paris, : Chez Didot ... ; Chez Giffart ... ; Chez Nyon ..., 1756.

Notes:

Contains many original Spanish documents, with a French translation.

Vol. 1: [8], 489, [1], xxxiij, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 336, 343-356, clviij, [2] p. [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 285, [1], cccxv, [3], [3] leaves of plates (l folded). Some errors in pagination.

Title vignette.

"Pieces justificatives" in Spanish and French in each volume.

Includes indexes.

Errata: v. 1, p. [2] of last group; v. 2, p. [2] of last group; v. 3, p. [2] of last group.

"Journal d'un voïage le long de la côte de la mer magellanique, depuis Buenos-Aryrés jusqu'a l'entrée du Détroit de Magellan: Tiré des observations des Peres Joseph Cardiel & Joseph de Quiroga, de la Compagnie de Jesus; par le pere Pierre Loçano de mesme Compagnie." (in Spanish): v. 3, p. cclxxiv-ccxcvj.

"There are copies with the imprint, 'Paris: Chex Desaint, MDCCLVII'. '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 Jesuits is fully developed, the postition of the author affording him peculiar opportunities for its examination'.--Sabin 12130.

Cited in:

Sabin 12129.

OCLC:

182932429