[Rarebooks] FS: Labat's "Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique." 1724 4to ed. with 66 plates

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(TRAVEL) Labat, Jean Baptiste. NOUVEAU VOYAGE AUX ISLES DE L'AMERIQUE. Contenant l'Histoire Naturelle... l'Origine, les Moeurs, la Religion & le Gouvernement... les Guerres... le Commerce et les Manufactures... Ouvrage Enrichi d'un Grand Nombre de Cartes, Plans, & Figures en Taille-Douce. La Haye (The Hague): Chez P. Husson et al. 1724. 2 volumes. 4to. 3 parts in 2 volumes. (6),174;360,(4);(6),520,(20)pp. Double column text. Indices. Title printed in red & black. This copy with a total of 66 plates (8 folding maps & plans and 58 plates (1 folding). See note on plate count below. Orig. vellum, covers & spines soiled. Spines hand lettered, with a small loss (chipped away) of vellum towards the top of the spine of Volume 2. Front free endpapers  lacking.                       $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)

This is the only edition in quarto of Labat's important account of the West Indies, where he worked as a Dominican Missionary  (1693-1705). The first folding map of Mexico & North America shows California as a large island. The plate count varies. The most common total number according to a survey of auction records is "64 maps & plates." Some records show 63, 66 (as in our copy), and a few have 68 or 69 total plates. Sabin 38411, "The collation (i.e. plate count) varies." European Americana 724/16.

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