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[ANTILLES] - EXQUEMELIN or OEXMELIN (Alexandre Olivier)
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[ANTILLES] - EXQUEMELIN or OEXMELIN (Alexandre Olivier)
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Estimate €1,200 - €1,800
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[ANTILLES] - EXQUEMELIN or OEXMELIN (Alexandre Olivier)
Paris, Jacques le Febure, 1688.
Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes [...] avecv la vie, les mœurs, les coutumes des habitans de Saint-Domingue & de la Tortue.
2 volumes in one vol. in-12 (15,9 × 9,6 cm), brown calf, double cold fillet framing the boards, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt designs (contemporary binding).
Sought-after second edition of this text, which inspired the whole literature of adventure and piracy.
Copper-engraved title-frontispiece, 3 folded maps and 4 figures in the text (3 of which are full-page).
Restorations, endpapers renewed. A few small tears and stains.
- GAGE (Thomas). Nouvelle relation, contenant les voyages de Thomas Cage dans la Nouvelle Espagne, ses diverses avantures, & son retour par la province de Nicaragua, jusquques à la Havane. Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1720. 4 parts in 2 vol. in-12 (15,9 × 9,2 cm), granulated brown calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilt designs, tawny title-papers (contemporary binding).
The set is decorated with two frontispieces, 17 folded out-of-text figures of maps, city views, sports and games, etc., all engraved on copper. Other works on the market have only 15 out-of-text figures.
Bindings a little rubbed, headpieces restored. Missing 1st title page. Minor foxing, frontispiece a little short in gutter, small light wetness on first ff. of second volume.
- ROCHEFORT. Histoire naturelle des Iles Antilles de l'Amérique. Lyon, Christofle Fourmy, 1667;
2 vol. in-16 (14,3 × 8 cm), parchment, spine ribbed with handwritten title (modern binding).
2 title vignettes, 46 copper-engraved figures: 42 full-page, one half-page and 3 folded out-of-text.
The Caribbean Vocabulary occupies the last pages of volume II, which is entitled Histoire morale des Antilles.
One spine split and splits to the others. Some light foxing, a little more pronounced in the 2nd volume. Small angular loss on one page without affecting the text.
- MERCIER (Louis-Sébastien). L'Habitant de la Guadeloupe, comedy in three acts. Paris, Poinçot, 1785. In-8 (19,5 × 12,3 cm), paperback, soft marbled paper cover.
The work was extracted from a collection of plays bound together and protected by new marbled paper covers.
Reunion of 4 works on the West Indies and Central America.
Provenance
2. de la Villeneuve (heraldic bookplate).
3. AR (wet stamp with this monogram).
Bibliography
1. Sabin, no. 23476. Polak, no. 7142. Leclerc, no. 199. John Carter Brown, European Americana, no. 688/87.
2. Sabin, 26306. Leclerc does not cite this fourth edition.
3. Sabin, no. 72317. Leclerc, no. 1334.
4. Quérard, VI, p. 60 (for the first edition).
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