Extracts from the New world, or, A description of the West Indies.
By: By John de Laet, director of the Dutch West India Company, etc. Tr. from the original Dutch by the editor.
Contributors: Folsom, George, 1802-1869, tr.
Published: 1841
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: New York (State) -- Description and travel.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
De Laet's work was originally pub. in Dutch, 1625, under title "Nieuwe wereldt, ofte Beschryvinghe van West Indien." The Latin edition, appearing in 1633, was so largely altered as to be substantially a new work, of which the French edition of 1640 was simply a translation.
Table of contents: value: Preliminary notice.; value: Translation of Book III, chapters VII-XI of Nieuwe wereldt.; value: Translations from the Latin and French editions of De Laet's New world; 1633-1640.; value: Note.