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[AMERICANA] CHEVREAU, [URBAIN] histoire du monde

Paris, 1689. Second edition. In five volumes. 12mo. With the coat of arms of the Archbishop of Rouen on each cover. Half-title in the first volume. Contemporary gilt armorial mottled brown calf, gilt spine compartments, red sprinkled edges. Rubbed, some small blistering to each volume, a few spine ends rubbed away, joints cracked but holding; old catalogue description mounted on front paste-down of the first volume, front free endpaper in the first volume excised, scattered light foxing to text. Ex-library with ink stamp on the half-title of the first volume and on the front paste-downs of the second through fifth volumes, call numbers in pencil on title-pages. See Sabin (12606) for the first edition of 1686; the fifth volume of the edition above (not recorded by Sabin) includes sections on Mexico, Peru, California, Canada, Florida, Virginia, etc.

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