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Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez: contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume

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Year:
1674
Contributor:
Justel, Henri, 1620-1693
Renaudiere, Antoine Salemon.
Subject:
Voyages and travels
Africa > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
West Indies > Description and travel
Atlantic States > Description and travel
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Description and travel
Imprint 1674.
France > Paris
Extent:
[16], 252, [2], 253-262, 35, [1], 23, [1], 49, [3], 45, [3], 49-55, 54-81, [1] p., [27] leaves of plates (14 folded) : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm. (4to)

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Notes:
Includes translations from English, Portuguese, Latin, etc.
Compiled and edited by Henri Justel.
"Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le quatriéme [i.e. quatrième] octobre 1673."--p. [8], 1st count.
Signatures: ã⁴ ²ã⁴ A-2H⁴ 2I² 2K⁴ 2L² 1.[sec.]-4.[sec.]⁴ 5.[sec.]² **A-**C⁴ a² b-g² *A-*K⁴ *L² (*L2 verso blank)
In 8 sections, each with its own half title. Blome's "Description de l'isle de la Jamaique," includes a 2nd half title: Relation de l'isle des Barbades.
Order of sections varies among copies, as do the order and number of leaves of plates. Large plates are sometimes bound at the center as double plates on folded leaves, and sometimes bound at the edge as single plates on folded leaves.
Errors in paging: p. 51, 13th count, misnumbered 53.
Errata for "Description de l'empire du Prete-Jean," p. 35, 5th count.
Includes bibliographical references.

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"Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez: contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume " (1674). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731357/

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