Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683.
Source Title:
[Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique. English] The history of Barbados, St Christophers, Mevis, St Vincents, Antego, Martinico, Monserrat, and the rest of the Caribby-Islands, in all XXVIII. In two books. The first containing the natural; the second, the moral history of those islands. Illustrated with several pieces of sculpture, representing the most considerable rarities therein described. Englished by J. Davies of Kidwelly.
Source Created or Published:
1666
Physical Description:
p. 106 || p. 107: Ch. XVIII; Eskimos and Narwals
Source Call Number:
R1739
Digital Image File Name:
62807
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
149065
Hamnet Holdings ID:
133247
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683.
Uniform Title (Hamnet):
Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. English
Title (Hamnet):
The history of Barbados, St Christophers, Mevis, St Vincents, Antego, Martinico, Monserrat, and the rest of the Caribby-Islands, in all XXVIII. In two books. The first containing the natural; the second, the moral history of those islands. Illustrated with several pieces of sculpture, representing the most considerable rarities therein described. Englished by J. Davies of Kidwelly.
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
Caribbean vocabulary
Alt. Title (Hamnet):
History of the Caribby-islands
Place of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
London :
Creator or Publisher (Hamnet):
printed [by John Macock] for John Starkey and Thomas Dring junr, at the Mitre between the Middle Temple-Gate and Temple-Bar, and at the White Lion neer Chancery-Lane end in Fleet-street,
Date of Creation or Publ. (Hamnet):
1666.
Physical Description (Hamnet):
[8], 351, [17] p., [9] leaves of plates ; 2⁰.
Folger Holdings Notes (Hamnet):
173701
Notes (Hamnet):
A translation of: Rochefort, Charles de. Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique.
Notes (Hamnet):
Wrongly attributed to César de Rochefort.
Notes (Hamnet):
Printer's name from Wing CD for Wing R1740.
Notes (Hamnet):
Includes "A Caribbian vocabulary" (2Z1r-3A1v), a translation of "Le vocabulaire caraibe" by Raymond Breton.
Notes (Hamnet):
With three final contents leaves.
Notes (Hamnet):
Another issue has title "The history of the Caribby-islands" with license to print on verso of title page.
Notes (Hamnet):
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992-1993. New World of Wonders (catalog entry 6) DFo
Citations (Hamnet):
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), R1739
Citations (Hamnet):
ESTC (RLIN) R24497
Subject (Hamnet):
Natural history -- West Indies -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Carib Indians -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Apalachee Indians -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Carib language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
West Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Subject (Hamnet):
Antilles, Lesser -- Early works to 1800.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Davies, John, 1625-1693.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679.
Call Number (Hamnet):
R1739

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