La Colombiade, ou La foi portée au nouveau monde
Subtitle: Poëme
By: par Madame Duboccage
Contributors: Bromsen, Maury A.; Brown University. Library
Publisher: Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue S. Jean de Beauvais. Durand, rue du Foin, vis-à-vis les Mathurins
Published: 1756
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Poetry; French poetry
Other titles: Colombiade.; Foi portée au nouveau monde.
Notes: Colophon on p. [2], 3rd count reads: de l'Imprimerie de Moreau.

Two issues exist with identical imprints but one is printed on normal stock and the other on finer paper. Typesetting, engraved printer's vignettes of cherubs, and head and tail pieces vary throughout. Title pages both have "Avec approbation et privilege du Roi" printed underneath roman numeral date; only one, however, has p. 184 printed with catchwords "A Madame" and poem and approbation following on successive leaf; issue without poem and approbation may be an unauthorized copy. One frontispiece engraving portrait has caption "On l'admire au Parnasse. On l'adore à Cythere"; the other identifies the portrait as Madame Dubocage [sic] and has caption "Formâ Venus, arte Minerva"; all plates are identical in design but some are signed "Chedel. inv. sc"

Two states of p. 59 are also noted: in one p. 59 is numbered correctly; in the other it is misnumbered 95.

Signatures: a⁴ A-L⁸ M⁴ N² (-N2)

Engraved vignette on title page; head and tail pieces.

Plates numbered 1-10 except for engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, which is unnumbered.

Sabin 21007.

Cioranescu.  18 s., 25467.

Brown, J.C.  Bibliotheca Americana, III:1112.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has frontispiece as Madame Dubocage [sic] and has caption "Formâ Venus, arte Minerva", all plates signed "Chedel. inv. sc", and catchwords on p. 184 are present and poem and approbation leaf follow; p. 59 is correctly numbered.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has frontispiece as Madame Dubocage [sic] and has caption "Formâ Venus, arte Minerva", all plates signed "Chedel. inv. sc", and catchwords on p. 184 are present and poem and approbation leaf follow; p. 59 is misnumbered 95.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is printed on normal paper and has frontispiece engraving portrait with caption "On l'admire au Parnasse. On l'adore à Cythere", and unsigned plates, lacks catchwords on p. 184, and p. [1-2] with poem and approbation; p. 59 is correctly numbered.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: dated in ms. hand on front pastedown "Jun 20 1823. de Villareal, Madrid"; text is heavily annotated in the same hand; Brown University: book stamp on title page.

John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 bound in contemporary mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 has frontispiece as  Madame Dubocage [sic] and has caption "Formâ Venus, arte Minerva", all plates signed "Chedel. inv. sc", and catchwords on p. 184 are present and poem and approbation leaf follow; p. 59 is misnumbered 95.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 is untrimmed and some leaves are uncut.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 acquired from the estate of Maury A. Bromsen.