Histoire de la conquéte de la Floride, ou Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans le decouverte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto
By: Composée en Espagnol pan [sic] l'Inca Garcilasso de la Vega, & traduit en Francois par P. Richelet
Contributors: Richelet, Pierre, 1626-1698; Bibliotheque de Ste Elisabeth
Publisher: Chez Geofroi Nyon libraire, Quai des Augustins.
Published: 1711
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: History; Spanish; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Histoire de la conquéte de la Floride.; Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la découverte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto.
Work titles: Florida del Inca
Notes: Vol. 2 has title: Histoire de la Floride, ou Relation de la conquéte de ce pays par Ferdinand de Soto. Seconde partie, and has imprint: M. DCC.VII.

Translation, by Pierre Richelet, of: La Florida del Ynca, first printed Lisbon, 1605.

These are the same sheets, with a new title page, as the edition which was printed in Paris in 1709.

Another edition printed by J. Musier in Paris in the same year.

"The work in one of the best contemporary accounts of the De Soto expedition, as well as being highly valued as the point of view of an Indian who retained his Indian loyalties". Cf. Parke-Bernet Catalog, Oct. 28, 1969.

Pagination: v. 1: [18], 281, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 249, [11] p.

Signatures: v. 1-2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) ã⁸ A-2Y⁶ (Z3 missigned Z2) (2A3, 2A4, 2Y3 versos blank) 2Z²

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

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 354839.

European Americana 711/83.

John Carter Brown Library copy has a cancel leaf in v. 1, p. [15-16], 1st count.

John Carter Brown Library copy has volumes 1 and 2 bound together in contemporary full calf.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Bibliotheque de Ste Elisabeth: book stamp on title page.