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Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps. Par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. ...
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LAFITAU, Joseph-François (1681--1746)
Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps. Par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. ...
A Paris chez Saugrain l'aíné. Charles Estienne Hochereau, 1724.
2 vols ; 24.9 cm. (4º)
I: [22], 610 p., engr. frontis., 19 pl., [1] engr. map.: [1] etch. illus.
II: [12], 490, [42] p., 21 pl.
Vol. I dedication has etched vignette lettered in the plate; plates 5, 11 and 15 incorrectly labelled 6, 2, and 16 respectively. The author was a Jesuit missionary who had been sent to Canada in 1711 to study the customs and manners of the Iroquois Indians. Lafitau was a prominent figure in the development of the literary figure of the 'noble savage' and eighteenth-century primitivism, equating 'uncivilized' peoples with the virtues of antiquity. Soane paraphrased Lafitau's account of the primitive dwellings of 'the American Savages' in a notebook labelled on the spine 'Extracts 180[1]' (Soane Case 142), probably in or after November 1812 on the evidence of the extracts on the preceding leaves. Hooked on Books 2.2.
Copy Notes With pl. 14 of vol. I misbound in vol. II (at p. 302). Inscribed in ink on the verso of the title-page in both volumes J. Girardot Delhancourt. Front free-endpaper of both volumes inscribed in ink John Soane. Volume I inscribed in ink on the front paste-down 1/5/0 bought of Boone. Purchased from Thomas Boone on 24 December 1805 (paid 25 December 1806). (Spier's Box).
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt-panelled spine with dolphin tool and coronet, red and black morocco spine-labels, spine of vol. I stamped 'Hookham's / Library' and 'No. 100 / New Bond Street'.
Reference Number 371
Mœurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps. Par le P. Lafitau, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce. ...
A Paris chez Saugrain l'aíné. Charles Estienne Hochereau, 1724.
2 vols ; 24.9 cm. (4º)
I: [22], 610 p., engr. frontis., 19 pl., [1] engr. map.: [1] etch. illus.
II: [12], 490, [42] p., 21 pl.
Vol. I dedication has etched vignette lettered in the plate; plates 5, 11 and 15 incorrectly labelled 6, 2, and 16 respectively. The author was a Jesuit missionary who had been sent to Canada in 1711 to study the customs and manners of the Iroquois Indians. Lafitau was a prominent figure in the development of the literary figure of the 'noble savage' and eighteenth-century primitivism, equating 'uncivilized' peoples with the virtues of antiquity. Soane paraphrased Lafitau's account of the primitive dwellings of 'the American Savages' in a notebook labelled on the spine 'Extracts 180[1]' (Soane Case 142), probably in or after November 1812 on the evidence of the extracts on the preceding leaves. Hooked on Books 2.2.
Copy Notes With pl. 14 of vol. I misbound in vol. II (at p. 302). Inscribed in ink on the verso of the title-page in both volumes J. Girardot Delhancourt. Front free-endpaper of both volumes inscribed in ink John Soane. Volume I inscribed in ink on the front paste-down 1/5/0 bought of Boone. Purchased from Thomas Boone on 24 December 1805 (paid 25 December 1806). (Spier's Box).
Binding C18th sprinkled calf, gilt-panelled spine with dolphin tool and coronet, red and black morocco spine-labels, spine of vol. I stamped 'Hookham's / Library' and 'No. 100 / New Bond Street'.
Reference Number 371