[extracts from:] La estrella de Lima

(Lima. Church History.) [ECHAVE Y ASSU, (Francisco de)]

[extracts from:] La estrella de Lima

[Translation into French] Particulitez edifiantes de ville de Lima capitale du Perou.

Description: manuscript in ink on paper, first leaf a bit soiled, a bit of damp-staining elsewhere, 90 unnumbered pages in 5 (loose) sections, folio, unbound

Publication Details: Cayenne: 1695

Notes: Echave y Assu's text does not begin until the third page, the first two being an account of how this rather extraordinary MS came into being. A copy of the printed book had been brought to Cayenne by pirates ('filibustiers') from St. Domingue in 1695, a colony renowned for its freebooters. Their first ship (?sailing from Lima) had foundered in the Straits of Magellan. They built another, and continued to Cayenne with their booty, which included other 'fort curieux' books in Spanish. A pirated edition, as it were. The MS would appear to be complete in itself (i.e. as much of it as was made), th...more

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Subject: Theology

Published Date: 1695

Stock Number: 58756

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