Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
Subtitle: enrichie de plusieurs belles figures des raretez les plus considerables qui y sont d'écrites : avec un vocabulaire Caraïbe
Contributors: Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679; Rochefort, César de, d. 1690; Leers, Arnout, fl. 1644-1674
Publisher: Arnould Leers
Published: 1658
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Description and travel; Pre-Linnean works; Glossaries, vocabularies; Early works to 1800; Apalachee Indians; Natural history; Carib Indians; Carib language
Description: Preface signed by LDP, Philippe de Longvilliers de Poincy, then Governor General of the French West Indies, but later editions attributed to Charles de Rochefort (who in turn is often confused with the French lexicographer César de Rochefort).
Notes: Dedication signed L.D.P. for Longvilliers de Poincy, the author. The work has also been attributed to César de Rochefort.

Added engraved t.p. Port. of Jacques Amproux, to whom the work is dedicated. In-text engravings. Printer's device on t.p., head- and tail-pieces, initials.

"Vocabulaire caraibe" (by R. Breton?), p. 515-527.

Signatures: a-bp4s A-3Xp4s Yp2s.

Sabin 72314

Getty c. 2 lacks engraved t.p. and port.

Binding, c. 1: old mottled calfskin, rebacked. Armorial stamp in gilt on both boards. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, the owner's name now effaced. Edges sprinkled red & brown.

Binding, c. 2: modern vellum, two pairs of ties at foredge, edges sprinkled red & brown.