Price: £2,000
Subject: Theology
Published Date: 1695
Stock Number: 58756
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[extracts from:] La estrella de Lim... - (Lima. Church History.) [ECHAVE Y ASSU, (Francisco de)]
[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, unboundPublication 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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