Muratori - Relation des Missions du Paraguai - 1757

Relation of the Missions of Paraguay. Translated from Italian by Mr. Muratori. Paris, Veuve Bordelet, 1757. Pages (2), XXIV, 402, (4); dimensions 17 x 10 cm. The frontispiece is missing at the beginning of the volume. Contemporary full leather binding with wear at the joints. Interior in good condition: bright, with slight and natural reddening. One of the best works on the history of the Indians of the Rio de la Plata, written by Ludovico Antonio Muratori, which 'tells' in a careful manner the colonization of the territory by the Jesuits: a religious-political system of great effectiveness.