Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François ... / par le R.P. du Tertre ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687, author.

Contributor:

Harlay, Achille de, comte de Beaumont, 1639-1712, dedicatee.

Bignon, Jérôme, 1627-1697, dedicatee.

Jolly, Thomas, active 1648-1694, bookseller.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

West Indies, French--History--Early works to 1800.

West Indies, French.

Natural history--West Indies--Pre-Linnean works.

Natural history.

West Indies--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

West Indies.

Indians of the West Indies--Early works to 1800.

Indians of the West Indies.

Compagnie des Indes occidentales--Early works to 1800.

Compagnie des Indes occidentales.

Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.

Lesser Antilles--West Indies, French.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

4 volumes in 3 : illustrations, maps, coats of arms ; 25 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Histoire generale des isles de S. Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans l'Amerique

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Thomas Iolly ..., [1667-1671]

Contents:

(from title leaves) Tome I. Contenant tout ce qui s'est passé dans l'establissement des colonies françoises

Tome II. Contenant l'histoire naturelle

Tome III. Dans lequel il est traité du changement des proprietaires des Ant-Isles. De l'etablissement de la Compagnie royale des Indes occidentales: et de son gouvernement jusqu'à la guerre entre la France & l'Angleterre

Tome IV. Dans lequel il est traité de tout ce qui s'est passé de plus considerable dans les Ant-Isles de l'Amerique, depuis le commencement de cette derniere guerre, jusqu'à la paix de Breda.

Notes:

Title leaf of tome 1 contains the words: Divisée en deux tomes et enrichie de cartes & de figures.

Title leaves of tomes 3-4 read: Histoire generale des Ant-Isles habitées par les François. Enrichie de eartes & de figures. Tome III[-IV] ... par le R.P. Jean Baptiste du Tertre ...

Tome 3 has a half-title.

Imprint statements of tomes 3-4 read: A Paris, chez Thomas Jolly ... M. DC. LXXI.

Signatures: tome 1: ã⁸ ĩ⁴(-ĩ4) A-4E⁴ 4F² ; tome 2: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-3X⁴ 3Y² ; tome 3: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-2R1⁴ 2S⁴(-2S4) ; tome 4: pi⁴(-pi4) A-3A⁴.

Pagination: tome 1: [22], 935 [that is 593], [3] pages, [4] leaves of plates (3 folded) ; tome 2: [16], 539, [1] pages, [14] leaves of plates (6 folded) ; tome 3: [16], 317, [9] pages, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) ; tome 4: [6], 362, [14] pages, [5] leaves of plates (4 folded).

Numerous errors in pagination.

Tome 3-4 bound (as issued?) in one volume.

Engravings: tome 1 has added title leaf (leaf ã1), initial, head-piece, and four plates (coat of arms of Achille de Harlay and three folded maps); tome 2 has initial, head-piece, and 14 illustrative plates (6 folded); tome 3 has initial, head-piece, and three plates (coat of arms of Jérôme Bignon and two folded maps); tome 4 has initial, head-piece, and five plates (coat of arms of Jérôme Bignon and four folded illustrative plates).

Woodcut printer's devices, initials, factotums, head- and tail-pieces.

Type ornament title ornaments, head- and tail-pieces.

Errata at end of tome 1-2 and at end of preliminaries of tome 3-4.

The first edition of this work, "or rather the project of it, which the author was obliged to put in press in haste because he understood that some other person was about printing it under some other name," was published at Paris in 1654 under the title: Histoire generale des isles de S. Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans l'Amerique. See preface of tome 1.

Local Notes:

Dechert F2001 .D97 1667 imperfect: tome 3: plate (coat of arms) and leaf ẽ2 wanting (leaves ẽ1, ẽ3 and ẽ4 of tome 3 bound in out of order after leaf pi3 of tome 4); tome 4: plate (coat of arms) wanting. Tome 1 has leaf A1 bound in out of order out after leaf A3. Tome 2 has an additional copy of engraved title leaf of tome 1 bound in at beginning of volume. Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Konstantinopel Rare Books.

Cited in:

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-septième siècle, 28116

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 21458

OCLC:

228708725