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BELLEGARDE, Jean Baptiste Morvan, M. l'abbé de.
A General History of all Voyages and Travels Throughout The Old and New World,
From the first Ages to this present Time … By Monsr. du Perier of the Royal Academy.
First edition in English, originally published in Paris in 1707, "devoted entirely to the early voyages of the Spaniards in the Americas, and which contains much information relating to the Indian tribes" (Hill). Bellegarde, a Jesuit who later became a follower of St. Francis de Sales, was best known for his successful conduct books, Réflexions sur le ridicule and Réflexions sur la politesse des mœurs. Small leather ex libris of Guy Littell, president of R.R. Donnelley and Sons,, and his wife Neva, to the front pastedown.
Octavo (194 × 114 mm). Modern bottle green morocco, title gilt to spine, green endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and 5 other plates. Spine sunned, hinges cracking, lightly browned, some pencil marginalia, a very good copy.
