Historische Beschreibung der Antillen Inseln in America gelegen : in sich begreiffend deroselben Gelegenheit, darinnen befindlichen natürlichen Sachen, sampt deren Einwohner Sitten und Gebräuchen mit 45. Kupfferstücken gezieret

Title Variants

Alternative: Beschreibüng der Antillen Isüln

Uniform: Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique

By

Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683

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

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Franckfurt, In Verlegung Wilhelm Serlins, Buchdruckers und Buchhandlers, 1668

Notes

Translation of the 2nd (1665) ed. of: Histore naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.

Added, engraved t.p. reads: Beschreibüng der Antillen Insüln.

Title page of v. 2 reads: Historische Beschreibung der Antillen Inseln in America gelegen. Das andere Buch, handelend von den Sitten und Gebraüchen der Einwohner dieser Inseln. Franckfurth. In Verlegung Wilhelm Serlins, Buchtruckers und Buchhändlers, 1668.

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

Signatures: v. 1: a¹² (-a¹²) A-S¹² T⁶ (T5 verso, T6 blank); v. 2: )(⁶ A-X¹² Y⁶ a¹² b⁶

Vol. 1: [22], 430, [14] p., [46] leaves of plates; v. 2: [12], 514, 31, [2] p.

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

Cf. Cundall, F. Bib. of the West Indies, p. 99.

Includes a chapter on the Apalachee Indians of the southwestern United States, and a glossary, by Raymond Breton, of the Carib language.

Errata note, v. 2, p. [1-2] at end.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, | 668/3.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, | III, p. 175.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 668/146.

Subjects

Antilles, Lesser , Apalachee Indians , Carib Indians , Carib language , Description and travel , Glossaries, vocabularies, etc , Imprint 1668 , Indian linguistics , Natural history , West Indies

Language

German

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.82001