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DU TERTRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE. Histoire Générale des Antilles habitées par les François. 2 engraved additional titles; 22 plates, including 4 of
DU TERTRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE. Histoire Générale des Antilles habitées par les François. 2 engraved additional titles; 22 plates, including 4 of coats-of-arms; 5 folding maps of St. Christopher [i. e., St. Kitts], Guadeloupe, St. Croix, Marie Galante, and Martinique. Errata leaf in Volume 1. 4 volumes in 3. 4to, modern sprinkled calf gilt in period style, spines faded; some toning and foxing of text, scattered marginal dampstains, repaired hole in blank outer margin of preliminary a4 in Volume 1, legend partly cropped on plate facing page 419 in Volume 2, repaired clean tear in 2P3 in same volume. Paris: Thomas Jolly, 1667-71
- Notes: first edition of an important early history of French possessions in the West Indies, with large portions devoted to native customs, slavery, natural history, and medical botany; substantially revised and expanded from the author's one-volume 1654 Histoire Générale des Isles de S. Christophe... et autres. Alden 667/37; Arents 299 ("contains numerous passages which indicate the importance of tobacco in the political economy of the islands").
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