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INSCRIBED TO A JESUIT PRIEST (INDIANS.) Lafitau, Joseph Francois. Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, map
INSCRIBED TO A JESUIT PRIEST (INDIANS.) Lafitau, Joseph Francois. Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains. Engraved frontispiece, engraved dedication, map and 41 plates. 2 volumes. 4to, early calf, one cover detached, a bit worn; minor dampstaining; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of volume one. inscribed by lafitau to a jesuit priest on a leaf inserted between the title and frontispiece. Paris, 1724
- Notes: first edition. "Gives very extended and very exact details of the customs, manners, and religion of the savages of America, though principally of the Indians of Canada. Charlevoix says, 'We have nothing so exact upon the subject of which he treats. His parallel of ancient nations with the American Indians is very ingenious, and exhibits as great familiarity with the nations of antiquity in the old world, as with the aborigines of the new'"--Sabin 38596; Howes L22; Lande 494; Alden 724/97; Stanton & Tremaine158; Streeter Sale 121; Siebert Sale 12.
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