154
Histoire naturel des Antilles. par de Rochefort.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 108, as above.
[ROCHEFORT,
César de.]
Histoire Natvrelle des Iles Antilles de l’Ameriqve: par Mr. de Rochefort. Tome Premier. [-Second.] A
Lyon: chez
Christofle Fovrmy,
m.dc.lxvii
. [1667.]
F2001 .R64
2 vol. 12mo. 316 and 344 leaves, including half-titles, the first title printed in red and black, the same engraving on both
titles representing the interior of a library in a frame, numerous plates, folded, and in the text (in the copy in the Library
of Congress the plate on page 139, Volume I, is printed upside down); 28 pages at the end of Volume II contain a
Vocabvlaire Caraibe. The second title page, printed in black only, reads
Histoire Morale des Iles Antilles de l’Amerique
, and omits the name of the author.
Barbier II, 819.
Sabin 72317.
Palau VI, 305.
John Carter Brown 728.
Field 1313 (not this edition).
Bissainthe 7812.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
3.
César de Rochefort [sometimes known as Charles], 1605-c. 1690, French jurisconsult, controversial writer and lexicographer, published the first
edition of this work in 1658. He is said to have stolen his material from Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, who published the first
edition of his own history of the Antilles in 1654. For an account of the two works and their connection with each other,
see Field as above.
According to Barbier the Carib vocabulary was by Raymond Breton, 1609-1679, French abbé.
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155
Edward’s history of the British West Indies.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 122, no. 229, as above,
5 vols.
EDWARDS,
Bryan.
The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies. By Bryan Edwards, Esq. F.R.S. S.A. Illustrated by an Atlas, and embellished with a Portrait of the Author. To which is added a general Description
of the Bahama Islands, by Daniel M’Kinnen, Esq. In
Four Volumes. Vol. I. [-IV.]
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
James Humphreys,
1806.
F2131 .E27
4 vol. 8vo. No copy of the fifth volume, the Atlas of plates, was available for examination. Vol. I, engraved portrait frontispiece
of the author for
J. Humphreys by D. Edwin; the preliminary matter contains the dedication to His Most
Excellent Majesty, the Prefatory Advertisement by Sir William Young, Bart., the Sketch of the Life of the Author, written by himself,
the Preface to the First Edition, dated London, 1793, the Preface to
the Second
Edition, dated London, 1794, and the Contents of the First Volume; Vol.
II, 204
leaves, 3 folded leaves of Tables, publisher’s advertisement on the
last leaf;
pages 227 to 233 contain The Sable Venus; An Ode. (Written in
Jamaica.); Vol.
III, 176 leaves, VII numbered Tables on 6 folded leaves at the end;
Vol. IV,
216 leaves, 1 folded leaf with a table, the list of Subscribers’ Names
on 4
pages at the end, headed by His Excellency T. Jefferson, Esq. L.L.D.
President
of the United States of America. Volume IV contains An Historical
Survey of the
French Colony in the Island of St. Domingo; Postscript to the
Historical Survey
of St. Domingo; A Tour through the several Islands of Barbadoes, St.
Vincent,
Antigua, Tobago, and Grenada, in the Years 1791 & 1792: By Sir William Young, Bart. M.P.F.R.S. &c.; History of the War in the West Indies
from its commencement in February 1793; Hortus Eastensis. Or a
Catalogue of
Exotic Plants, in the Garden of Hinton East, Esq; in the Mountains of
Liguanea,
in the Island of Jamaica, at the time of his Decease. By Arthur Broughton, M.D.; A General Description of the Bahama Islands. By Daniel M’Kinnen, Esq.
Sabin 21901.
Ragatz 165.
Cundall, 2095.
McCulloch, page 92 (not this edition).
Winsor VIII, 272.
Bissainthe 5654 (with date 1805).
