Americas.- [Labat (Jean-Baptiste)]

Nouveau Voyage au Isles de l’Amérique, 6 vol., titles in black and red, 90 only (of 102) plates, including maps (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Gulf of Mexico and West Indies…), plans, scenes of daily life, such as shooting turtles, tobacco manufacturing, farm buildings, animals, plants, fruits, etc. (several folding), some plates creased or torn at folds, light age yellowing, occasional spotting, a little marginal dampstaining in vol. 1, small annotation to front free endpaper in vol. 1, and a few others, library stamp of von Müllenheim Adomar, contemporary calf, gilt spine, rubbed and worn, [Sabin, No. 38409], 12mo, Guillaume Cavelier, Paris, 1722 [sold not subject to return]

*** “The most interesting work on the Antilles" according to Chadenat. The relationship of Father Labat, a Dominican missionary who spent more than ten years in the West Indies, is one of the most documented works on this archipelago in the 18th century. Labat took part in the development of the sugar cane industry and in the defence of the archipelago against the English in 1704.