LABAT, J.B.

Voyage du Chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, Isles voisines, et a Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727. Contenant une Description très exaxte & très étenduë de ces Pais, & du Commerce qui s'y fait. 4 Vols.

Amsterdam, De la Compagnie, 1731. Small 8vo. Bound in 4 nice uniform contemp. full calf. Covers with panels, blintooled, Cambridge-binding style. Covers with gilt borders. Richly gilt spines. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Minor cracks to upper fronthinge on volume one. Light wear to spineends on volume one. Engraved frontispiece. Title-pages in red and black. (2),XXII,(2);(8),292;(4),330,(24);(4),292 (wrongly 392) pp., 5 large folded engraved maps., 27 partly folded engraved plates. Small closed tear to one plate. Faint marginal browning.

Some copies have the imprint, Paris, Osmont, 1730. Vols. III and IV relate almost entirely to the French possessions in South America, and are illustrated with D'Anville's maps. (Sabin, 38414).

Order-nr.: 54901