Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François. : Divisée en deux tomes, et enrichie de cartes & de figures. Tome I [-IV]. ...

Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687 · 1667 · A Paris, : Chez Thomas Iolly, au palais, en la salle des merciers, à la palme, & aux armes d'Hollande. · 18 pictures

A 1667 Paris natural history of the French Caribbean islands by Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, a Dominican missionary, published for French readers and colonial interests. Its plates are crisp engravings of plants, fish, and island life, with labelled specimens, botanical arrangements, and figures of Indigenous people, useful to designers for seventeenth-century botanical and exotic motifs.

Compagnie des Indes occidentales · Natural history · Indians of the West Indies

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