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Book/Printed Material Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François : divisées en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures : tome I[-IV] Histoire generale des Ant-Isles habitées par les François

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Title

  • Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François : divisées en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures : tome I[-IV]

Other Title

  • Histoire generale des Ant-Isles habitées par les François

Names

  • Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687
  • Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez Thomas Iolly ..., 1667-1671.

Contents

  • (from title pages): t. 1. Contenant ce qui s'est passé dans l'establissement des colonies françoises -- t. 2. Contenant l'histoire naturelle-- t. 3. Dans lequel il est traité du changement des proprietaires des Ant-Isles. De l'etablissement de la Compagnie royale des Indes occidentales, et de son gouvernement jusqu'à la guerre entre la France & l'Angleterre -- t. 4. Dans lequel il est traité de tout ce qui s'est passé de plus considerable dans les Ant-Isles de L'Amerique, depuis le commencement de cette derniere guerre, jusqu'à la paix de Breda.

Headings

  • -  Compagnie des Indes occidentales
  • -  Natural history--West Indies--Early works to 1800
  • -  Indians of the West Indies--Early works to 1800
  • -  West Indies, French--History
  • -  West Indies--Description and travel--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Title of v. 3-4: Histoire generale des Ant-Isles habitées par les François ... par le r.p. Jean Baptiste du Tertre ...; title page of v. 1 is the only one which contains the words: Divisée en deux tomes.
  • -  The first edition of this work, "or rather the project of it, which the author was obliged to put in press in haste because he understood that some other person was about printing it under some other name," was published at Paris in 1654 under the title: Histoire generale des isles de S. Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans l'Amerique.--cf. Preface; also Rich.
  • -  Vol. 1: [20], 935 [i.e. 539], [1] p. (p. 539 misnumbered 935); v. 2: [16], 539, [1] p.; v. 3: [16], 317, [9] p.; v. 4: [6], 362, [14] p. The number of volumes which contain an added engraved title page seems to vary from copy to copy.
  • -  LC copy has added engraved t.-p., in v. 1-3; lacks 1 leaf of plates; plate facing p. 395, vol. 2, imperfect.
  • -  Sabin 214582
  • -  Kislak accession no.: 1997.027.00.0001
  • -  LAC snh 2019-06-14 no edits (2 card)

Medium

  • 4 v., [25] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., coats of arms, maps (engravings) ; 25 cm. (4to)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F2001 .D97
  • F2001 .D97 Copy 2 Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Bound in 3 vols. (v. 3 and 4 in 1 v.); added engraved title pages for v. 1 and v. 2. Ms. notes in pencil on several free endpapers.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 02013558

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Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, and Jay I. Kislak Collection. Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François: divisées en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures: tome I-IV. A Paris: Chez Thomas Iolly ..., to 1671, 1667. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/02013558/.

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Du Tertre, J. B. & Jay I. Kislak Collection. (1667) Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François: divisées en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures: tome I-IV. A Paris: Chez Thomas Iolly ..., to 1671. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/02013558/.

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Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, and Jay I. Kislak Collection. Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François: divisées en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures: tome I-IV. A Paris: Chez Thomas Iolly ..., to 1671, 1667. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/02013558/>.