79/2643 [Caribbean]. Labat, (J.-B.). Nieuwe Reizen naar de Franse Eilanden van America. Behelzende De Natuurlyke Historie van die Landen, derzelver Oorspronk, Zeden, Godsdienst, Regering der oude en tegenwoordige Inwoonders; als ook die der zwarte Slaaven: Beneffens de Oorlogen en voornaamste Gevallen, die in het lang verblyf van den Auteur in dat Land zyn voorgevallen. Als ook een naauwkeurige Verhandeling van het maken der Suiker, Indigo, Cochenille, Cacao, en andere nuttigheden, tot den Koophandel dienende. Dutch transl. W.C. Dyks. Amst., B. Lakeman, 1725, 4 parts in 2 vols., (2),18,350; (2),404; (2),235,(1),254; (4),200[=198],167,(33)p., 1 engr. frontisp., 92 (of 94) (fold.) plates, contemp. vellum/ later hvellum, 4to.

- Lacks frontisp. and 2(?) plates; partly lvs. yellowed/ sl. browned; a few lvs. w. wormholes in upper inner corner; a few other sm. defects. Second volume rebound; first volume upper joint splitting.

= Howgego L43; Sabin 38415 (wrong collation of the plates); Alden/ Landis 725/121; Cat. NHSM I, p.268; Tiele 623; Von Hünersdorff/ Hasenkamp p.836; Mueller, Kakao p.29. "Labat went to the West Indies as a Dominican Missionary, and gives in this, his most famous work, details of all the islands he visited, and notably of Martinique and Guadeloupe. He speaks also of many of the smaller islands; of some of them this is the only early information we possess. He gives accounts of the cultivation of tobacco, sugar, indigo, etc., and many anecdotes of the inhabitants." (Cox II, p.235). Also on slavery, local history, flora and fauna, illustrated by various plates. The first Dutch edition with the same plates as the first French 8vo ed., published Paris 1722.