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[North America - MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri)]. Letters of the Cherokees, set down in French from the Italian translation. By J. J. RUFUS, European Savage. Rome, Printed by the Sacred College of Propaganda, 1769. In-12 of XII-204 pp. (including the first blank page). Marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, title page in maroon, red tr. (period binding). New edition of Lettres iroquoises (containing only 37 of the 43 letters), epistolary novel by the defrocked capuchin Maubert de Gouvest. Cuffs and tailbone gnawed, upper cuff and corners worn away, spines split, spotting to edges of boards, a few rare small freckles. (Barbier II, 1228.)
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[North America - MAUBERT DE GOUVEST (Jean-Henri)]. Letters of the Cherokees, set down in French from the Italian translation. By J. J. RUFUS, European Savage. Rome, Printed by the Sacred College of Propaganda, 1769. In-12 of XII-204 pp. (including the first blank page). Marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, title page in maroon, red tr. (period binding). New edition of Lettres iroquoises (containing only 37 of the 43 letters), epistolary novel by the defrocked capuchin Maubert de Gouvest. Cuffs and tailbone gnawed, upper cuff and corners worn away, spines split, spotting to edges of boards, a few rare small freckles. (Barbier II, 1228.)
