(from title pages): v.1: Contenant tout ce qui s'est passé dans l'establissement des colonies françoises.--v.2: Contenant l'histoire naturelle.--v.3: Dans lequel il est traité du changement des proprietaires des Ant-Isles. De l'etablissement de la Compagnie royale des Indes occidentales: et de son gouvernement jusqu'à la guerre entre la France & l'Angleterre.--v.4: Dans lequel il est traité de tout ce qui s'est passé de plus considerable dans les Ant-Isles de l'Amerique, depuis le commencement de cette derniere guerre, jusqu'à la paix de Breda

Title page of v.1 is the only one which contains the words: Divisée en deux tomes

Title pages of v.3-4 read: Histoire generale des Ant-Isles ... par le r.p. Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, de l'Ordre des ff. Prescheurs de la province de S. Loüis, missionnaire apostolique dans les Ant-Isles

Imprint statements of v. 3-4 read: A Paris, chez Thomas Jolly, au palais, en la salle des merciers, au coin de la gallerie des prisonniers, à la palme, & aux armes d'Hollande; & en son magasin ruë S. Jacques, entre les eglises S. Severin & S. Yves, à l'enseigne des armes d'Hollande. M.DC.LXXI

The first edition of this work, "or rather the project of it, which the author was obliged to put in press in haste because he understood that some other person was about printing it under some other name," was published at Paris in 1654 under the title: Histoire generale des isles de S. Christophe, de la Guadeloupe, de la Martinique, et autres dans l'Amerique; cf. Preface (v.1)

Title vignette (v. 1-2): printer's device

Vol. 3 has half-title

The number of volumes which contain an added engraved title page seems to vary from copy to copy

Vol. 1: [22], 935 [i.e.593], [3] p., [4] leaves of plates (3 folded); v.2: [16], 539, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates (5 folded); v.3: [16], 317, [9] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded); v.4: [6], 362, [14] p., [5] leaves of plates (4 folded)

Numerous errors in pagination

Signatures: v.1: ã⁸ ĩ⁴ (-ĩ4) A-4E⁴ 4F²; v.2: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-3X⁴ 3Y² (3Y2 verso blank); v.3: ã⁴ ẽ⁴ A-2R⁴ 2S⁴ (-2S4) (2S3 verso blank); v.4: pi⁴ (-pi4) A-3A⁴ (3A4 verso blank)

Errata statements: v.1, at end; v.2, at end; v.3, p. [16]; v.4, p. [6], 1st count

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

European Americana

Cioranescu, A. 17. s.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1, bound in contemporary calf, has several of the plates misbound (according to the instructions in v.1, p. [13] and in v.4, p. [6], 1st count): v.1 contains 3 additional plates--the Forts, the map of Mariegalande, and the map of Sainte Croix; v.2 lacks the plate of the Forts (available in v.1); v.3 lacks the map of Mariegalande and the map of Sainte Croix (both available in v.1); v.4 lacks the plate of the coat of arms which precedes the Dedication. This copy has an added engraved title page in v.1 only

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (v.1-2 only) is also bound in contemporary calf. Vol. 1 lacks all of its own plates, but contains another copy of the coat of arms plate for v.3, the map of Sainte Croix, the "Combat de la Pointe de Sable" plate, and the "Combat de la riviere Pelan" plate. Vol. 1 also lacks p. [13-22]. Vol. 2 lacks all of its own plates, but contains another copy of the coat of arms plate for v.3, the map of Mariegalande, the "Combat des Cinq Combles" plate, and the "Combat de Cayonne" plate. This copy has an added engraved title page in v.1 only

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