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Additional authors

1. Husson, Pieter, 1678-1733
2. Johnson, Thomas, 1677?-1735
3. Gosse, Pierre, 1676?-1755
4. Duren, Johannes van, 1687-1757
5. Alberts, Rutger Christoffel, 1691-1732
6. Le Vier, Charles, -1734

Description

1. 2 v. : ill., maps; 28 cm. (4to)

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative title

1. Voyage du pere Labat aux isles de l'Amerique

Subject

1. Natural history -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800
2. Slave trade -- West Indies, French -- Early works to 1800
3. Slavery -- West Indies, French -- Early works to 1800
4. Carib Indians -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
5. West Indies, French -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
6. West Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
7. West Indies -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800
8. Haiti -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 917.297-L (Labat, J. B. Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique)

Note

1. Title pages and half-title pages printed in red and black; engraved printer's vignettes on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
2. Text printed in two columns.
3. Another edition with same imprint printed in 6 volumes at The Hague, 1724; first printed in Paris in 1722.
4. Volume 2, p. 181-252 [i.e. 268] concerns the author's visit to Saint-Domingue.
5. Errors in pagination: v. 2, p. 268 misnumbered 252.
6. Vol. 1, pt. 1 has separate pagination and register.
7. Vol. 1: [8], viii, 168, 40, 33-360, [4] p., [47] leaves of plates (3 folded); v. 2: [8], 120 [i.e. 520], [20] p., [19] leaves of plates (2 folded).
8. Signatures: v. 1: [pi]² [star]-3[star]² A-X⁴ (N3 missigned N5) ²A-²N⁴ O-2Z⁴ ²[star]²; v. 2: [pi]² [star]² A-Y⁴ Z² 2A-3T⁴ 3V² 3X-3Y⁴ 3Z².
9. Cf. Bissainthe, M. Dictionnaire de bibliographie haïtienne, 6385; and Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 146.

Indexed in (note)

1. Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana
2. European Americana
3. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738.

Title

1. Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique : contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitans anciens & modernes : les guerres & les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez pendant le long séjour que l'auteur y a fait : le commerce et les manufactures qui y sont établies, & les moyens de les augmenter : ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de cartes, plans, & figures en taille-douce : tome premier[-second].

Imprint

1. A La Haye : Chez P. Husson. T. Johnson. P. Gosse. J. Van Duren. R. Alberts. & C. Le Vier, MDCCXXIV. [1724]

Indexed in:

1. Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III:343
2. European Americana, 724/96
3. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 38411

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 917.297-L (accession nos. B527078-B527079) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local note

1. Schomburg Center researchers are restricted to the microform copy in: Sc Micro R-6456. NN

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
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3. Request Access to Special Collections Material

Added author

1. Husson, Pieter, 1678-1733, bookseller.
2. Johnson, Thomas, 1677?-1735, bookseller.
3. Gosse, Pierre, 1676?-1755, bookseller.
4. Duren, Johannes van, 1687-1757, bookseller.
5. Alberts, Rutger Christoffel, 1691-1732, bookseller.
6. Le Vier, Charles, -1734, bookseller.
7. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 917.297-L (Labat, J. B. Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique)
2. *KB 1724 (Labat, J. B. Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique)