Nouveau Voyage Aux Isles De L'amerique. : Contenant L'histoire Naturelle De Ces Pays, L'origine, Les Moeurs, La Religion & Le Gouvernement Des Habitans Anciens & Modernes: Les Guerres & Les Evenemens Singuliers Qui Y Sont Arrivez Pendant Le Long Séjour Qu
2 v. :|bill., maps ;|c28 cm. (4to)
First printed in Paris, 1722 Aother edition with same imprint printed in 6 volumes Hague, 1724 Vol. 2 , p. 181-252 [i.e. 268] concerens the author's visit to Saint-Domingue Pagination: v. 1: [8], viii, 168, 40, 33-360, [4] p., [47] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 120 [i.e. 520], [20] p., [19] leaves of plates (2 folded) Errors in pagination: v. 2, p. 268 misnumbered 252 Vol. 1, part 1 has separate pagination and register Signatures: v. 1: pi² *-3*² A-X
(N3 missigned N5) ²A-²N O-2Z ²*² (²*2 verso blank); v. 2: pi² *² A-Y Z² 2A-3T 3V² 3X-3Y 3Z² (gatherings 3X-3Z missigned 2X-2Z) (3Q2 missigned 3T2) Text printed in parallel columns Includes index Title pages and half-title pages printed in red and black; engraved printer's vignettes on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials Cf. Hogg, P.C. African slave trade, 146 Cf. Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, 6385 Alden, J.E. European Americana Brown, J. C., Cat., 1493-1800 John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary speckled calf Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: "Ed. Lund, Lewes/ 1782-9": inscription on recto of second front flyleaves
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