![Item #38870 The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst many other New, Curious, and Interesting Particulars of that Country, a full and authentic account of the Establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the Savage Natives, in the very Centre of Barbarism: Establishments allowed to have realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas More, and Plato. Written originally in French, by the celebrated Father Charlevoix. [Two Volumes]. Charlevoix, Pierre-François Xavier de.](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38870.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1432524562)
![The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst many other New, Curious, and Interesting Particulars of that Country, a full and authentic account of the Establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the Savage Natives, in the very Centre of Barbarism: Establishments allowed to have realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas More, and Plato. Written originally in French, by the celebrated Father Charlevoix. [Two Volumes].](https://kaaterskillbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/38870_2.jpg?auto=webp&v=1432524562)
The History of Paraguay. Containing amongst many other New, Curious, and Interesting Particulars of that Country, a full and authentic account of the Establishments formed there by the Jesuits, from among the Savage Natives, in the very Centre of Barbarism: Establishments allowed to have realized the Sublime Ideas of Fenelon, Sir Thomas More, and Plato. Written originally in French, by the celebrated Father Charlevoix. [Two Volumes].
London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, 1769. vii, 463 pp.; viii, 415 pp. (v.1 pages 261, 349, and 432 misnumbered 621, 149, and 442 and v. 2, pages 176 and 301 misnumbered 167 and 331). 8vo. Period style gray paper-covered boards with printed spine labels. First English Language edition. A near fine set, a few mostly marginal worm holes to the last few leaves of each volume, partially affecting a few letters of text. Sabin 12133. Palau 67171. Cox II: 282. Field 284. JCB III:1663. Jones 811. Item #38870
"The most complete and satisfactory work on Paraguay, and the only one in which the vast system of the Jesuits is fully developed, the position of the author affording him peculiar opportunities for its examination." (Cox quoting Maggs). This English language vesion is an abridgment of the larger work in French. Provenance: Samuel G. Arnold (1821-1880) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and president of the Rhode Island Historical Society (signatures from original endpapers laid in loose).
Price: $700.00