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. Avec une Description exacte & curieuse
de toutes ces Isles. Ouvrage enrichi d’un grand nombre de Cartes, Plans, & Figures en Taille-douce. Tome Premier. [-Sixième.] A
La Haye: chez
P. Husson,
T. Johnson,
P. Gosse,
J. Van Duren,
R. Alberts, &
C. Levier,
m. dcc. xxiv
. [1724.]
F2151 .L12
6 vol. 12mo. 260, 302, 266, 274, 256 and 268 leaves including first and last blanks where present; titles printed in red and
black, numerous plates, folded and full-page, including maps, plans, plates of natural history and other matters. In the Library
of Congress copy Volumes I and II have at the end the Table des Matieres, included in the signatures and in the pagination;
volumes III, IV, and V are without this Table; Volume VI is missing, and a copy of the first edition, Paris, 1722, of which
this edition is a reprint, was used in its place; this volume has the Table at the end.
Barbier III, 524.
Quérard IV, 325.
Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 194.
Sabin 38410.
Faribault 346.
Winsor VIII, 272.
John Carter Brown 343.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
21.-.
Jean Baptiste Labat, 1663-1738, French Dominican, had been interested in missionary work since first joining the order. His opportunity came
in 1693, when, contagious disease having depleted the monasteries in the Antilles, the Dominican superiors of the Islands
appealed to European members of the order for help. Labat spent a large part of his time in Martinique, and returned to France
in 1705. The first edition of this work was published in Paris in 1722, and was several times reprinted. The preface contains
a critical analysis of the work of Durret, q.v.
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Histoire des Antilles Angloises.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 109, as above.
[BUTEL-DUMONT,
Georges Marie.]
Histoire et Commerce des Antilles Angloises. Où l’on trouve l’état actuel de leur population & quelques détails sur le Commerce
de contrebande des Anglois avec les Espagnols dans le Nouveau Monde. On y a joint l’Histoire des Loix principales qui concernent
les Colonies Angloises établies tant dans les isles, que sur le continent de l’Amérique.
[
Paris?]
m. dcc. lviii
. [1758.]
F2131 .B98
12mo. 158 leaves including the first blank, 2 leaves of Errata and the additional leaves in sig. B and C, folded engraved
map of Les Isles Antilles par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy.
Quérard I, 576.
Sabin 9601.
Winsor VIII, 272.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
2.8.
Georges Marie Butel-Dumont, 1725-1788, French jurisconsult and historian, published the first edition of this work without name of place or printer
in 1757, though this edition of 1758 is usually considered the first by bibliographers. The work deals with the French and
English interests in the West Indies, about which Jefferson had written in the previous year, on February 1, 1787, to John
Jay: “
. . . It had been suspected that France & England might adopt those concerted regulations of commerce for their West Indies,
of which your letter expresses some apprehensions. but the expressions in the 4. 5. 7. 11. 18. & other articles of their treaty,
which communicate to the English the privileges of the most favored
European
nation only, has lessened if not removed those fears. they have clearly reserved a right of favoring specially any nation
not European, and there is no nation out of Europe who could so probably have been in their eye at that time as ours. they
are wise. they must see it probable at least that any concert with England will be but of short duration: & they could hardly
propose to sacrifice for that a connection with us which may be perpetual . . .
”
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