La Colombiade, ou la foi portee au nouveau monde

by Columbus, Madame Du Boccage, Marie-Anne Fiquet

A$2,100 · Offered by Hordern House

Paris: Desaint & Saillant, Durand, 1756. Octavo, engraved frontispiece portrait by Tardieu le fils, and 10 engraved plates by Chedel, engraved titlepage vignette, headpiece to dedication leaf and tailpieces at end of each canto; a very attractive copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, crimson morocco label. An epic poem on the discovery of America

• Binding: Leather

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