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Charles Rochette de La Morlière | Angola, histoire indienne… nouvelle edition, [Paris], 1751, 2 volumes, blue morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru

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Charles Rochette de La Morlière

Angola, histoire indienne… nouvelle edition. Revue et corrigée. “Agra: avec privilege du Grand-Mogol” [i.e. Paris], 1751


2 volumes, 12mo (140 x 80mm.), titles printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 2 engraved vignettes and 5 engraved plates after Charles Eisen, dark blue morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru, red morocco doublures, gilt edges, upper covers detached

[From the collections of Baron Jérôme Pichon, Francis Charmes and Blumenthal, according to the 1982 Meeûs catalogue]; Laurent Meeûs, book label, catalogue of his collection by Michel Wittock (Brussels, 1982), item 103

Cohen-De Ricci 593, noting that there are two issues from this date, the best one having a vignette of a carriage in volume 2, as in this copy