Journal d'un voyage sur les costes d'Afrique et aux Indes d'Espagne
Subtitle: avec une description particuliere de la riviere de la Plata, de Buenosayres, & autres lieux ; commencé en 1702. & fini en 1706
Publisher: Aux dépens de la Compagnie
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Slave trade; Description and travel; Travel
Description: An account of a voyage, written by an anonymous Frenchman who sailed from France to Africa and Buenos Aires aboard a slave ship belonging to the "Asiento" Company, which was entitled to transport salves to South America by a treaty with Spain. It gives a detailed account of the slaves, describing the way they looked and dressed, and gives an extensive report on the slave trade in Africa, Brazil and Buenos Aires. Authorship is sometimes attributed to the French theologian and physician Pierre Le Lorrain de Vallemont (1649-1721).
Notes: Frontispiece has title: Sauvage du Perou Nation d'Amerique.

Signatures: 1 l. unsigned; A-H6.

Ms. inscription on title page, "A Mde de Masionrouge."

Library's copy lacks map.

Bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, gold-tooled spine with red morocco label, gold fillets on board edges, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges; manuscript waste used for tapes.