Histoire de l'Amérique
By: par Guillaume Robertson, docteur en théologie, principal de l'Université d'Edimbourg, & historiographe de S.M.B. pour l'Écosse ; traduite de l'anglois, par M.E__
Publisher: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, imprimeurs-libraires, associés
Published: 1777
Place of publication: A Maestricht
Language: fre
Translated from: eng
Subjects: History; Discovery and exploration; Early works to 1800; Discoveries in geography
Work titles: History of America. Books 1-8
Notes: Translation of The history of America. London, 1777  by Marc-Antoine Eidous; a different translation, by Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard and Hendrik Jansen, was published in Paris, 1777.

Contains Books I-VIII, the history of the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru.

Signatures: tome 1: a¹² A-M¹² N⁶ 6;  tome 2: pi² A-S¹² T⁴; tome 3: pi² A-T¹²; tome 4: pi² A-Q¹² (leaf C3 missinged "Cij").

Tome 1: xxiij, [1], 298, [2] pages (last leaf blank); tome 2: [4], 437, [3] pages (last 3 pages blank); tome 3: [4], 456 pages; tome 4: [4], 381, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates (last 3 pages blank).

Includes bibliographical references and index, among them: "Catalogue des livres & des manuscrits espagnols." (tome 4, pages 317-337).

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, entry 71990

Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, tome 8, page 77

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 270999

Gift of Philippe and Haidee du Fresnay, November 16, 2018.

Imperfect: lacking plate.

Bound in calf with gilt tooled red morocco spine labels.