Histoire de l'Amérique / par M. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, William, 1721-1793.

Contributor:

Suard, J. B. A. (Jean Baptiste Antoine), 1734-1817.

Jansen, Hendrik, 1741-1812.

Dérival de Gomicourt.

Harris, John Levett., Donor.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

History of America. French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

America--History.

America.

America--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

4 v. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.

Edition:

Nouv. ed., revue, corrigée & augmentée d'après la 2. ed. angloise & enrichie des cartes nécessaires.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : E. van Harrevelt, 1779.

Notes:

Translation of The history of America.

The translation of Suard and Jansen (Paris, Panckoucke, 1777) revised and compared with the 2d English ed. by Dérival de Gomicourt. cf. Quérard, La France littéraire.

Titles in red and black.

"Catalogue des livres et manuscrits espagnols, que M. Robertson cite dans cette histoire": v. 4, p. [339]-357.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum has only map #4 (of 4 in all); map and plate are in pocket in v. 1.

Athenaeum copy: Title-pages inscribed: "John L. Harris."

Athenaeum copy: Flyleaves: "Bought in St. Petersburg in the year 1818."

Athenaeum copy: Harris bequest; bookplate in v. 1..

OCLC:

2469043