Histoire Ameriquaine
Subtitle: nouvelle comique & tragicomique
Contributors: Brown, Harcourt, 1900- former owner
Publisher: Chez I. Baptiste Loyson, au palais, à la Croix d'Or, devant la Ste Chapelle
Published: 1680
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Privateering; Pirates; Fiction
Other titles: Histoire Ameriqvaine.
Work titles: Nouvelles de l'Amerique, ou Le Mercure ameriquain
Notes: First printed under title: Nouvelles de l'Amerique, ou le Mercure Ameriquain, Rouen, 1678.

This edition is a reissue with a cancelled titlte page.

A collection of three romantic tales about pirates and buccaneers.

Signatures: A-L¹² (A1 verso blank) M²

Woodcut printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 71.

European Americana 680/98.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of Harcourt Brown.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: armoral bookplate on front pastedown; Marquis de Villeneuve: ms. autograph on verso of title page.