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Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique; : rédigée d'après les mémoires des préfets apostoliques de la mission françoise; enrichie d'une carte utile aux navigateurs: dédiée a monsieur.

by: Proyart, Liévin-Bonaventure, 1743?-1808

Publication date: 1776

Topics: Catholic Church, Vili (African people), Ethnology, Imprint 1776

Publisher: A Paris, : Chez C.P. Berton, libraire, rue Saint Victor. : N. Crapart, libraire, rue Vaugirard. ; A Lyon, : Chez Bruyset-Ponthus, imprimeur-libraire, rue Saint Dominique.

Collection: jcbfrench; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French

Colophon reads: De l'Imprimerie de P.G Simon, 1776

Concerning this missions of Bellegarde (name given as Belgarde by Streit) and Descovrières to the kingdoms of Loango and Kokongo, now part of the Republic of Congo from 1766 to 1776

"Plan des côtes de Loango": folded map bound following p. [4], 3rd count

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a⁴ (-a4) (a1 verso blank) A-Q¹² (H5 missigned H4) R⁶ (-R6) (R5 verso blank)

Errata: p. 387-390

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Mary Ann Lippitt Fund