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JEAN-BAPTISTE LABAT (1663/4-1738)
Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de L'Amerique. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1722. 6 volumes, 12° (150 x 95mm). Titles printed in red and black. 102 engraved maps, plans, views and plates (comprising: 92 plates [31 of these folding], 10 folding maps and plans). (Vol.II with tear to N6; vol.III with folding plate facing p.333 shaved with loss; R6 in vol.IV torn in half; Y6 & 7 in vol.VI loosely inserted.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the third compartment stained black and gilt tooled in volume number (extremities lightly rubbed and chipped).
EARLY EDITION OF LABAT'S IMPORTANT HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES. According to Sabin, three different editions were published in the same year, with 'slight variations in the collation' (Sabin). Labat, a French Dominican missionary, naturalist and scientist, ministered to the Indians in the Caribbean from 1693 to 1706, visiting Martinique and Guadeloupe. The present work includes scientific observations, descriptions of flora and fauna, and suggestions for the trade of the islands' natural resources. 'His highly perceptive and scientific description of these and some of the smaller surrounding islands provides some of the only information available from this period': Howgego I,L43; Sabin 38412
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GARCIA LASSO DE LA VEGA (1539?-1616). The Royal Commentaries of Peru ... Written originally in Spanish ... And rendered into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut. London: printed by Miles Flescher, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1688. 2° (325 x 200mm). Title in red and black. Portrait frontispiece of the translator, 10 engraved plates. (Plate facing p. 474 loosely inserted and with light marginal soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in the 18th century (rubbed, joints slightly split). Sabin 98760; Wing G-216. (7)
Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de L'Amerique. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1722. 6 volumes, 12° (150 x 95mm). Titles printed in red and black. 102 engraved maps, plans, views and plates (comprising: 92 plates [31 of these folding], 10 folding maps and plans). (Vol.II with tear to N6; vol.III with folding plate facing p.333 shaved with loss; R6 in vol.IV torn in half; Y6 & 7 in vol.VI loosely inserted.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the third compartment stained black and gilt tooled in volume number (extremities lightly rubbed and chipped).
EARLY EDITION OF LABAT'S IMPORTANT HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES. According to Sabin, three different editions were published in the same year, with 'slight variations in the collation' (Sabin). Labat, a French Dominican missionary, naturalist and scientist, ministered to the Indians in the Caribbean from 1693 to 1706, visiting Martinique and Guadeloupe. The present work includes scientific observations, descriptions of flora and fauna, and suggestions for the trade of the islands' natural resources. 'His highly perceptive and scientific description of these and some of the smaller surrounding islands provides some of the only information available from this period': Howgego I,L43; Sabin 38412
[With:]
GARCIA LASSO DE LA VEGA (1539?-1616). The Royal Commentaries of Peru ... Written originally in Spanish ... And rendered into English, by Sir Paul Rycaut. London: printed by Miles Flescher, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1688. 2° (325 x 200mm). Title in red and black. Portrait frontispiece of the translator, 10 engraved plates. (Plate facing p. 474 loosely inserted and with light marginal soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked in the 18th century (rubbed, joints slightly split). Sabin 98760; Wing G-216. (7)
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