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L'histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes Occidentales, contenant dix-huict liures, enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts. / par le sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection Folio NC6 L1298 Eh640h
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649.
- Standardized Title:
- Nieuwe Wereldt. French
- Language:
- Dutch
- French
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 14 preliminary leaves, 632 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, 14 folded maps. ; 35 cm
- Other Title:
- Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.
- Place of Publication:
- A Leyde : Chez B. & A. Elseuiers, 1640.
- Notes:
- T.-p. in red and black.
- Printer's mark (the hermit) on t.-p.
- "Les cartes géographiques et les figures insérées dans le texte sont celles de l'édition flamande de 1630."--Willems, Les Elzevier, 1880, no. 497.
- "This French translation of Laet contains many materials not to be found in the original Dutch, chiefly vocabularies of Indian tribes." --Sabin.
- First edition published in Dutch at Leyden, 1625, under title: Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien.
- Cited in:
- JCB (1919) II, p. 283-284
- Sabin, 38558
- Willems, 497
- Copinger, 1327
- OCLC:
- 79419695
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