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Les Incas, ou la destruction de l'empire du Pérou

Illustrated by: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
Engraved by: Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
Engraved by: Antoine Jean Duclos (French, 1742–1795)
Engraved by: Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815)
Engraved by: Isidore Stanislas Helman (French, 1743–1806)
Engraved by: Jean-Jacques André Le Veau (French, 1729–1786)
Engraved by: François Denis Née (French, 1735–1818)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Author: Jean-François Marmontel (French, 1723–1799)
Publisher: Lacombe (French, 18th century)
Printer: Jean-Georges Antoine Stoupe (French, 1736?–1808)
1777
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 11 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 20 x 13 x 3.4 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1489a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Stoupe, for Lacombe, 1777

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 690
Description(Paris: Stoupe, for Lacombe, 1777) Octavo, two vols.; [v. 1] 176 leaves, plus 6 plates; [v. 2] 194 ll., plus 5 pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped bottled brown calf.

Allegorical frontispiece; historical illustrations.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1909 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.