Zélaskim histoire amériquaine; ou Les avantures de la Marquise de P***
Subtitle: avec un discours pour la défense des romans
By: Par M.B***
Contributors: Forstner. former owner
Publisher: Chez Mérigot, pere, libraire, Quai des Augustins, près de la rue Gilles-Coeur
Published: 1765
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: French fiction; Indians of North America; Fiction
Other titles: Zélaskim histoire amériquaine.; Avantures de la Marquise de P***
Notes: Attributed to François Béliard by Barbier.

Pagination: v. 1: [2], xlvii, [1], 99, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 140 p.; v. 3: [4], 135, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 142 p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a-d⁸⁻⁴ A-H⁸⁻⁴ I² (I2 verso blank); v. 2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A⁶ B⁴ C-M⁸⁻⁴; v. 3: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-K⁸⁻⁴ L⁸ (L8 verso blank); v. 4: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A⁴ B-L⁸⁻⁴ (F3 missigned F2) M⁸ (-M8)

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Barbier, A.A. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes (3. éd.), 19553.

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 11016.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III:1485.

John Carter Brown Library copy has 4 volumes bound in 2.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in 19th century green morocco with marbled boards.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Forstner: ms. autograph on title page of volumes 1 and 3.