Histoire de Nicolas I. Roi du Paraguai, et Empereur des Mamelus.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A variant issue which differs in pagination and title ornament to those mentioned by Borba, but which was also printed in Sao Paulo (Saint Paul) in 1756 in the same year as the first two editions. A “veritable novel of adventure, [which] is considered to be an anti-Jesuit pamphlet. Some believe that it was directed against Louis XV and his court” (Borba). Borba I, p404.

• Binding: Hardcover

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