Charles de Rochefort (1605-1683)

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Lot 149 | Charles de Rochefort (1605-1683)
Charles de Rochefort (1605-1683)

Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique. 1658

[ROCHEFORT, Charles de (1605-1683)]. Histoire naturelle et morale des Iles Antilles de l'Amerique ... Avec un vocabulaire Caraibe. Rotterdam: Arnould Leers, 1658.



First edition of this important work on the islands of the Caribbean and their natural history. Considered a Huguenot emigration guide to America, Rochefort also provides interesting details on Florida and Georgia, as well as contemporary information on the European settlements developing on the Caribbean islands, particularly the French and British sugar plantations. This issue is with the dedicatory epistle signed 'C. de Rochefort'. Brunet III, 206; Sabin 72314.



Quarto (225 x 168 mm). Additional engraved title-page, engraved portrait, and 43 engraved illustrations in the text, many full-page (some of the full-page illustrations trimmed close at foot sometime into plate mark but without loss to image, quire Pp starting to come loose, small marginal chips to Y2 and Nnn3, tiny marginal wormtrack at foot of gutter from quire Zz to end). Contemporary vellum (front hinge weak, covers lightly rubbed and soiled). Provenance: evidence of removed bookplate.

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