La Lusiade de Louis Camoëns
Subtitle: poëme héroïque, en dix chants
By: nouvellement traduit du Portugais, avec des notes & la vie de l'auteur. Enrichi de figures à chaque chant
Contributors: Hermilly, Vaquette d', 1705-1778; La Harpe, Jean-François de, 1739-1803; Herbelot, Leon d'; Palha; Bromsen, Maury A.
Publisher: Chez Nyon aîné, libraire, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais
Published: 1776
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Portuguese; Discovery and exploration; Explorers; Poetry; History
Work titles: Lusíadas
Notes: First printed Lisbon, 1572.

Colophon in v. 2 reads: A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Ph. D. Pierres, imprimeur du Collége royal de France, rue S. Jacques.

Prose translation by Vaquette d'Hermilly; revised by Jean-François de La Harpe. Cf. BM and BN cat.

Discusses Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India and mentions Mexico and Brazil.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], xxix, [3], 320 p., [5] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 291, [5] p., [5] leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) a-b⁸ A-V⁸ (D5, H3 versos blank); v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-S⁸ (C4, K6 versos blank) T⁴

Each chapter, or "song," preceded by engraved plate.

Engraved printer's ornament on title pages; tailpieces.

Errata: v. 1: p. [1], 3rd count; v. 2: p. [4], 3rd count.

Silva, I.F. da Dicc. bib. portugues, V: p. 270.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired from the estate of Maury A. Bromsen.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Leon d'Herbelot: bookplate on front pastedowns; Livraria de Palha: bookplates on front pastedown in volume 1.