Rochefort, Charles de (1605-1683).

Estimate

700 - 1,000 GBP

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Description

Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. Rotterdam: Arnout Leers, 1665

4to (234 x 176mm.), [34], 583, [13]pp., illustration: additional engraved title-page, 3 engraved folding plates, 44 engraved text illustrations (some full-page), woodcut initials, binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf, some small tears (not affecting text), light staining and spotting, somewhat rubbed, upper cover detached

Literature

Sabin 72316; Everett Wilkie, "The authorship and purpose of the Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique, an early Huguenot emigration guide" Harvard Library Bulletin, New Series II, 3 (1991), 26-84

Catalogue Note

This work on the islands of the Caribbean, their peoples, trade, flora and fauna, was first published in 1658. It includes a vocabulaire Caraibe and also digressions on the Eskimo and Indian nations.