[Americana]. GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. Histoire des Yncas rois d - Lot 242

[Americana]. GARCILASO DE LA VEGA. Histoire des Yncas rois du Pérou (History of the Yncas kings of Peru) This edition is accompanied by a history of the conquest of Florida by the same author. A Amsterdam, chez Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1737. 2 vols. in-4, contemporary fawn calf, 5-nerved spine, red title-piece and green tomaison, decorated with gilded fleurons and stars, triple gilded fillet on covers, fleurons at corners, double gilded fillet on edges, roulettes at edges, gilded edges over marble (some defects, including corners and edges a little rubbed, small stains on covers, small restoration to lower cover of t.2, upper jaw of t.1 slightly split towards tail, freckles, browning). A handsome and amply illustrated edition, which includes, in addition to the History of the Incas and the Conquest of Florida, a description of Louisiana by Louis Hennepin. The illustration consists of 21 copper-engraved plates by Duflos, Folkema and Morellou La Cave after Bernard Picart and Debrie, including a frontispiece and three fold-out maps of Peru, the course of the Mississippi and Louisiana. Provenance: Louis de Rochemore (18th c. armorial bookplate). (Sabin 98752; Chadenat 316; Cohen, 425).