Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. : Enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des raretez les plus considerables qui y sont d'écrites. : Avec vn vocabulaire Caraïbe

Title Variants

Alternative: Histoire naturelle & morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique

By

Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683

Rochefort, César de, 1690
Rochefort, César de, 1690
Poincy, Louis de, 1660
Poincy, Louis de, 1660
Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Roterdam, Chez Arnould Leers, M. DC. LVIII.. [1658]

Notes

Added engraved t.p. reads: Histoire naturelle & morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie. Has also been attributed to Louis de Poincy and to César de Rochefort.

Two states are noted. In state 1, the dedicatory epistle is signed C. de Rochefort. In state 2, the dedicatory epistle is signed L. D. P. (on leaf a4, a cancel)

In 2 parts. Part 2 has special part title page.

Signatures: a-b A-3X 3Y² (2Y2 verso blank)

Title vignettes.

P. 223 misnumbered 232; p. 352 misnumbered 351; p. 354 misnumbered 454.

Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 658/3.

"Vocabulaire Caraïbe," by Raymond Breton, p. 515-527.

"Digression de la nature du Paîs des Apalachites, de leurs moeurs, & de leur religion ancienne & nouvelle," p. 353-379.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, | 658/4.

JCB Lib cat., pre-1675, | II, p. 484.

Cundall, F. West Indies, | p. 99.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) | 171893.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 658/140.

Signatures: a-b⁴ A-3X⁴ 3Y² (2Y2 verso blank)

Subjects

Antilles, Lesser , Apalachee Indians , Carib Indians , Carib language , Description and travel , Early works to 1800 , Glossaries, vocabularies, etc , Imprint 1658 , Indian linguistics , Natural history , West Indies

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61175