La Lusiade du Camoens, poeme heroique, sur la decouverte des Indes Orientales
By: Traduit du Portugais, par M. Duperron de Castera. ; Tome premier [-troisieme]
Contributors: Castera, Duperron de, 1705-1752
Publisher: Chez Babuty
Published: 1768
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Work titles: Lusíadas
Notes: Translation of: Os Lusiadas / Luís de Camões.

Half-title: La Lusiade du Camoens.

French translation 1st published in 1735.

Signatures: v. 1, pi² a-f⁸⁻⁴ A-2C⁸⁻⁴ 2D⁴ (e3 missigned e4; pi1, pi2, 2D4 versos blank); v. 2, pi² A-2G⁸⁻⁴ 2H² (pi1, pi2 versos blank); v. 3, pi² A-2E⁸⁻⁴ (pi1, pi2, versos, and 2E4 blank)

Pagination: v. 1, [4], lxix, [3], 319, [1] p.; v. 2, [4], 424 [i.e., 364] p.; v. 3, [4], 334, [2] p.

Vol. 1 and 2 have colophon:  De l'imprimie de Quillau, 1768.

Includes index.

Describes Vasco da Gama's 1st voyage to India and mentions Mexico and Brazil.

Silva, I.F. da.  Bibl. portugûes, 5:270.