Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
Subtitle: Enrichie d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille douce, des places & des raretez les plus considerables, qui y sont décrites. : Avec un vocabulaire Caraïbe
Contributors: Rochefort, César de, d. 1690; Poincy, Louis de, d. 1660; Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679; B. B. M.; Mathew, Edward
Edition: Seconde edition. Reveuë & augmentée de plusieurs descriptions, & de quelques éclaircissemens, qu'on desiroit en la precedente.
Publisher: Chez Arnout Leers
Published: 1665
Place of publication: A Roterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 583
Subjects: Carib language; Indian linguistics; Glossaries, vocabularies; Early works to 1800; Apalachee Indians; Natural history; Carib Indians; Description and travel
Notes: Added engraved t.p.

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie. Has also been attributed to Louis de Poincy and to César de Rochefort.

First ed. published in 1658.

In two parts. Part 2 has special part title page.

Signatures: a-d⁴ e² A-4E⁴ 4F² (3M4 missigned 3M2)

Title vignette.

6 leaves of plates comprise 3 double plates.

Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 658/3.

Cf. Cundall, F.  Bib. of the West Indies, p. 99.

"Digression contenant un abregé de l'histoire naturelle & morale du Païs des Apalachites," p. 373-434.

"Vocabulaire caraïbe", by Raymond Breton, p. 571-583.

Includes bibliographical references.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 665/4.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, III, p. 136.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 271894.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 665/173.

John Carter Brown Library copy: Has contemporary ms. notes. Bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: B.B.M. : inscription; Edward Mathew: inscription.