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[BEVERLEY, Robert]

Histoire de la Virginie contenant, I. L'histoire du premier établissement dans la Virginie, & de son gouvernement jusques à présent. II. Les productions naturelles & les commoditez du Païs, avant que les Anglois y negociassent, & l'améliorassent. III. La
Amsterdam
Thomas Lombrail
1707
€160 - €240

Large in-12°, [6] + 433 + [16] pp. Last page of text (p. 433) is a large folding table. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 engraved plates. Cont. full calf (one joint broken, some rubbing)

A work of considerable merit, particularly relative to the numerous Indian tribes, then resident in the State, but now extirpated or greatly diminished... Beverley is the best authority concerning the particular subjects delineated in his quaint and agreeable pages; and his work affords the most vivid, comprehensive, instructive, and entertaining picture of Virginia at the date of his writing that is to be found.
Ref. Sabin n° 5116 ; Brunet VI, n° 28582. Ex-libris J. Gevaert

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