L'histoire du 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
Number of pages: 632
Subjects: Botany; Zoology; Natural history; Wyandot language; Glossaries, vocabularies; Nahuatl language; Quechua language; Tupi language; Arawak language; Indian linguistics
Other titles: Histoire du nouveau monde.; Description des Indes Occidentales.
Work titles: Nieuwe Wereldt
Notes: Translation of: Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis, libri XVIII, printed in Leiden, 1633, which is an enlarged version of the author's Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, first printed Leiden, 1625.

Includes various specimens of indigenous language vocabularies: Book 2, chapters XII and XVI include a small list of vocabulary on p. 52 and 57, 2nd count, in the Huron language as spoken in Hochelaga, which was the indigenous name for Montréal; also includes music with Wyandot text on p. 58, 2nd count; Book 3, chapter XI gives a list of numbers and parts of the body in the "sankikan" language [cannot identify the language]; Book 5, chapter X gives a vocabulary of words and glyphs in Nahuatl on p. 153-154; Book V, chapter XIII gives a comparative Nahuatl vocabulary from the works of Gomara, Acosta, at Annales peintes on p. 162; Book 11, chapter XVIII gives "Du langue des Peruuiains & leur pöesie" on p. 405-406, which contains 2 specimens of Quechua copied from Garcilaso de la Vega, who himself cites and copies from Blas Valera; a 4 line love song with French translation, printed in 2 columns; and a 17 line sample of devotional verse with 2 Latin translations, a word-for-word calque copied from Vega and a second version, printed in 3 columns;  the longer Quechua text includes minor spelling variants and omits lines 11 and 12 of Garcilaso's version; Book 16, chapter I gives vocabulary in the Tupi language from Brazil copied from Jean de Léry on p. 536; and Book 17, chapter XII gives vocabulary in the Arawak language from Guiana on p. 582-583.

Signatures: *² 2-4*⁴ A-4K⁴ 4L⁶

Roman numeral date on title page created with backwards c's.

Title page printed in red and black; Elzevier printer's device with the motto "Non solus" on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Errors in paging: p. 26, 28-29, and 31-32 misnumbered 30, 32-33, and 35-36.

Errata: foot of p. [12], 3rd count.

Includes indexes.

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 492.

Willems, A.C.J. Les Elzevier, 497.

Vail, R.W.G. Old frontier, 96.

Rodrigues, J.H. Domínio holandês no Brasil, 1349.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I: p. 451.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:1682.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 640/1.

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

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:283.
Table of contents: title: [From table of contents] Des isles de l'ocean; title: Nouuelle France; title: Virginie; title: Floride; title: Nouuelle Espagne; title: Nouuelle Galice; title: Guatimala; title: Terra Firma; title: Peru; title: Peru ou Charca; title: Chile; title: Magallanique; title: Rio de la Plata; title: Brasil; title: Brasil Septentrional; title: Guaiana; title: Nouuelle Andaluzie.; title: [Maps] Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis tabula generalis; title: Maiores minoresqve insulae Hispaniola, Cvba Lucaiae et Caribes; title: Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes; title: Nova Anglia, Novvm Belgivm et Virginia; title: Florida et regiones vicinae; title: Nova Hispania, Nova Galicia, Gvatimala; title: Tierra firma item Nvevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan; title: Perv; title: Chili; title: Provinciae sitae ad Fretvm Magallanis itemque Fretvm le Maire; title: Paragvay, ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus provinciis quas vocant Tvcvman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra; title: Provincia de Brasil cvm adiacentibvs provinciis; title: Gvaiana siue provinciae intra Rio de las Amazonas atque Rio de Yviapari siue Orinoqve; title: Venezvela atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalvsiae.