Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez
Subtitle: contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume
Publisher: Chez la veuve Ant. Cellier, ruë de La Harpe, à l'imprimerie des Roziers.
Published: 1684
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Colonies; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Notes: Includes translations from English, Portuguese, Latin, etc.

Compiled and edited by Henri Justel.

A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1674 ed.

"Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le quatriéme [i.e. quatrième] octobre 1673."--p. [8], 1st count.

Signatures: ã⁴ (±a1) ²ã⁴ A-2H⁴ 2I² 2K⁴ 2L² 1.[sec.]-4.[sec.]⁴ 5.[sec.]² **A-**C⁴ a² b-g⁴ *A-*K⁴ *L² (*L2 verso blank)

The Library of Congress's copy of this work has an extra unsigned leaf with half title "Colonies Angloises" bound as 9th preliminary leaf.

In 8 sections, each with its own half title. Blome's "Description de l'isle de la Jamaique," includes a 2nd half title: Relation de l'isle des Barbades.

Order of sections varies among copies, as do the order and number of leaves of plates. Large plates are sometimes bound at the center as double plates on folded leaves, and sometimes bound at the edge as single plates on folded leaves.

Number of leaves of plates in pagination follows JCB copy, which is incomplete. For items lacking, see below.

P. 51, 13th count, misnumbered 53.

Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 684/2. This entry, which is based on a copy at the New York Public Library, lists a second sequence of [1]-23 p. following p. 81 at end.  However, these final 23 p. are not listed in the copy described in the printed catalog of the NYPL's Rare Book Dept.

Errata for "Description de l'empire du Prete-Jean," p. 35, 5th count.

Includes bibliographical references.

Stret, R. Bib. missionum, I:695.

Baer, E. Seventeenth Century Maryland, 111.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 139-140.

NYPL. Dept of Rare Books. Dictionary cat., p. 355.

European Americana 684/140.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect. Lacks leaf *F4, and preliminary leaves ²ãii-²ãiv (dedication to Abraham Duppa, available in 1674 ed.). Lacks gatherings 2K⁴ and 2L² ("Extrait de l'histoire d'Ethiopie," including map on verso of half title, available in 1674 ed.). Also lacking 2 maps present in the 1674 ed, (1) "Imperii Abassini tabula geographica," a large plate, printed and bound variously in 3 or 4 sections, and (2) "Costes et riuieres de Virginie, de Mariland et de Nouuelle Angletere." Bound in contemporary mottled calf.
Table of contents: title: Histoire de l'isle des Barbades ... / par Richard Ligon; title: Relation de la riviere du Nil ... traduit de l'original anglois ... / [Jeronymo Lobo]; title: Extrait de l'histoire d'Ethiopie, / ecrite en portugais par le p. Baltasar Telles ...; title: Description de l'empire du Prete-Jean / [Antonio d'Almeyda]; title: Relation du voyage fait sur les costes d'Afrique, aux mois de novembre & decembre de l'année 1670. Janvier & février 1671 ...; title: Relation de l'origine, moeurs, coustumes religion, guerres et voyages des Caraibes, sauvages des isles Antilles de l'Amerique / faite par le Sieur de La Borde ...; title: Relation de la Guiane, et de ce qu'on y peut faire; title: Description de l'isle de la Jamaique et de toutes celles que possedent les Anglois dans l'Amerique ... / [Richard Blome]