Nouvelle relation de l'Afrique occidentale
Subtitle: contenant une description exacte du Senegal & des païs situés entre le Cap-Blanc & la riviere de Serrelionne, jusqu'à plus de 300. lieuës en avant dans les terres. L'histoire naturelle de ces païs, les differentes nations qui y sont répanduës, leurs religions & leurs moeurs. Avec l'etat ancien et present des compagnies qui y font le commerce. Ouvrage enrichi de quantité de cartes, de plans, & de figures en taille-douce
By: / Par le pere Jean-Baptiste Labat, de l'ordre des Freres-Prêcheurs
Contributors: Lebaudy, Paul
Publisher: Chez Guillaume Cavelier, ruë Saint Jacques, au Lys d'Or, proche la fontaine de S. Severin.
Published: 1728
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Commerce; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; French
Notes: Colophons of volumes 5 and 6 read: De l'Imprimerie de la veuve Delaulne.

Title page of volume 5 omits "y" in "qui y font le commerce"

"J'ay cedé le present Privilege à Messieurs [Théodore] Le Gras, [Guillaume] Cavelier & [Pierre-François] Giffart: author's assignment of privilege, volume 1, page [3], 4th count. Copies of the edition were allocated to each of the three named booksellers individually: on the title pages (which were printed separately, the leaves having vertical chainlines) the three different imprints are isolated press variants. Sets may contain a mixture of imprints.

Pagination: volume 1: [4], xiv, xiii-xvii, [7], 346, [2] pages, [10] leaves of plates (8 folded); volume 2: [4], ii, 376 pages, [27] leaves of plates (19 folded); volume 3: [4], ii, 154, 153-162, 165-387, [1] pages, [15] leaves of plates (11 folded); volume 4: [8], 392 pages, [17] leaves of plates (16 folded); volume 5: [6], 404 pages, [11] leaves of plates (6 folded)

Signatures: volume 1: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) ã¹⁻⁷ chi1 (signed ã7) a⁸⁻¹² A-O¹² P⁶ (P6 blank); volume 2: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) ã² (-ã2) A-P¹² Q⁸; volume 3: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) ã² (-ã2) A-Q¹² (E5 missigned F5) Q² (Q2 verso blank); volume 4: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) ã² A-Q¹² R⁴; volume 5: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) ã² A-Q¹² R¹⁰

Errors in paging: volume 1: pages 104, 223, 275, 316, 323, and 326, 5th counts, missigned 304, 323, 295, 416, 324, and 226; volume 3: pages 145, 3rd count, misnumbered 135 and pages 237, 5th count, misnumbered 137; volume 5: pages 103, 338-339, and 364-365, 3rd count, misnumbered 03, 238-239, and 464-465.

Includes indexes: volume 1, pages 337-346, 5th count; volume 2, pages 365-376; volume 3: pages 374-387; volume 4: pages 385-392; volume 5: pages 391-404.

Bookseller's advertisements: volume 1, pages [4-7], 3rd count.

Title pages in red and black; engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

Volume 2, pages 361-364, 3rd count (leaves Q1 and Q2) are fold-out leaves printed on recto and verso.

Purchase; 2018; 19-196.