L'histoire dv Nouveau monde, ou, Description des Indes occidentales
Subtitle: contenant dix-huict liures
By: par le sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers ; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts
Publisher: Chez Bonauenture & Abraham Elseuiers, imprimeurs ordinaires de l'Vniversité
Published: 1640
Place of publication: A Leyde
Language: fre; dut
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: Languages; Botany; Early works to 1800; Maps; Zoology; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Description des Indes occidentales.; Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.
Work titles: Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien
Notes: "Transl. from the author's Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, Leyden, 1630, itself an enlargement of his Nieuwe wereldt, 1st publ., Leyden, 1625. Here added are vocabularies of Indian languages & other material"--Alden.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Printer's mark (hermit) on t.p.

Several p. misnumbered.

Plates are 14 double-leaf maps.

Signatures: *-4*⁴ A-4K⁴ 4L⁶.

Errata, p. [12], last sequence.

Contains bibliographical references (p. [15]-[16]) and index.

Sabin, 38558

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 640/111

Library's copy imperfect: p. [1]-[16] (including t.p.), 1-130 (Livres 1-4) wanting, as are 5 of the 14 maps. The 9 maps here present may be from another copy; they are hinged at the center fold, tipped onto a stub, and loosely inserted.

Binding: sprinkled calf over pasteboards. Gold-tooled double fillet along edges of top and bottom boards. Spine: 6 raised bands; compartments gold-tooled with double fillets and center stamp; title gold-stamped in 2nd compartment: Histor. dv novve. m. Loose pages, front board nearly off.