L'histoire dv nouveau monde ou description des Indes occidentales. Contenant dix-huict liures / par le sieur Iean de Laet, d'Anuers; enrichi de nouuelles tables geographiques & figures des animaux, plantes & fruicts.

  • Laet, Joannes de, 1581-1649
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Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien. French. 1640

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A Leyde : Chez B. & A. Elseuiers, 1640.

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14 unnumbered leaves, 632 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : title page in red & black, woodcuts, illustrations, 14 folded engr. maps ; (folio)

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/35/81

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"Les cartes géographiques et les figures inserées 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.

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