Histoire naturelle des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
By: par Mr. De Rochefort. Tome premier [-second]
Contributors: Rochefort, César de, d. 1690; Poincy, Louis de, d. 1660; Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679
Publisher: Chez Christofle Fourmy, ruë Merciere, à la bibliotheque.
Published: 1667
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Carib language; Apalachee Indians; Natural history; Indian linguistics; Carib Indians; Description and travel
Other titles: Histoire des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.; Histoire morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.
Work titles: Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
Notes: There are 3 issues of this ed. Vol. 1 is from the 1st issue; v. 2 is from the 2nd. Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.

Vol. 2 has title: Histoire morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.

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

First ed. published in Rotterdam, 1658.

Signatures: v. 1: ã¹² * 2*¹² 3* (-3*4) A-Z¹² 2A (-2A8); v. 2:  (-1) A-2E¹² 2F (X3 signed V3; 2A3 signed A3)

Title vignettes.

Vol. 1: [62], 566 p., [1] folded leaf of plates; [6], 680 p., [2] folded leaves of plates.

Several pages are misnumbered.

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

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

"Digression contenant un abregé de l'histoire naturalle & morale du pais des Apalachites," v. 2, p. 209-346.

"Vocabulaire caraibe," v. 2, p. 652-680.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 667/3.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, III, p. 162.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 271896.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 667/121.