LABAT, JEANNE BAPTISTE Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse Eilanden van America, behelzende de natuurlyke historie van de landen...
Amsterdam: Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. Volumes I and II bound together (of four volumes issued). Period cream vellum over boards, tooled in blind. 8 x 6 inches (20.5 x 15.5 cm); [iv], 350, [2] pp.; [ii], 403, [1] pp.; maps, plates and plans throughout. Binding stained, a bit overopened, with a few slightly protruding signatures. Not fully collated, and sold as-is.

"Labat went to the West Indies as a Dominican Missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe. He speaks also of many of the smaller islands; of some of them this is the only early information we possess. He gives accounts of the cultivation of tobacco, sugar, indigo, etc., and many anecdotes of the inhabitants." (Cox II, p.235). This first Dutch edition has the same plates as the first French octavo edition, published Paris 1722. The folding map of North America shows California as an island.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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