Louis GENTY
Dissertation sur les suites de la découverte de l'Amérique, qui a obtenu en 1785 une mention honorable de l'Académie des sciences, arts & belles-lettres de Lyon. Revue & corrigée pour le concours de l'année 1787, sous l'emblême d'un navire avec ces mots : Orbem conjungit utrumque. Par un citoyen, ancien syndic de la Chambre de commerce de Lyon
[Dissertation on the Consequences of the Discovery of America, which received an Honourable Mention in 1785 from the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres of Lyon. Revised and corrected for the competition of the year 1787, under the emblem of a ship bearing the words: Orbem conjungit utrumque. By a citizen, former syndic of the Lyon Chamber of Commerce]
Sans nom d'éditeur|Lyon 1787|12.7 x 20 cm|Broché
New edition, partly original, published anonymously (see Sabin 20,288).
Disbound copy, preserved in a modern marbled paper wrapper.
Abbé Louis Genty (1743–1817) is better known for his Influence de la découverte de l’Amérique sur le bonheur du genre humain, published in 1788, but this Dissertation appears here in a form close to its first draft.
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