[ANTILLES]. DU TERTRE (Jean-Baptiste). Histoire generale des - Lot 17

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[ANTILLES]. DU TERTRE (Jean-Baptiste). Histoire generale des - Lot 17
[ANTILLES]. DU TERTRE (Jean-Baptiste). Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François. In Paris, Chez Thomas Jolly, 1667. 2 volumes in-4° (of 4), contemporary ivory vellum. ORIGINAL PART EDITION of this work first published in 1654. "Volume I. Containing all that happened in the establishment of the French Colonies" (X ff. + 593 pp. + I f.). "Volume II. Containing the natural history." (VIII ff. + 539 pp.). A title-frontispiece decorated with a small map of the Antilles, a plate with the arms of the Attorney General Achille de Harlay, to whom the work is dedicated, and seventeen other plates. dedicated, and seventeen other engraved plates [out of 25] (all in volume II: 3 double maps and 14 plates on various subjects of which 5 of them double); headbands, lettering and endpapers. From the library of A. de Vatelfeuille, with manuscript bookplate on the title of volume II. Restored damage on the second plate of volume 2; some light foxing, but a good copy in a A GOOD COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Sabin, 21458; Leclerc, 1314.
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