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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. · 13 pictures

Histoire generale des Antilles, a 1667 Paris natural and civil history of the French Caribbean colonies by Jean Baptiste Du Tertre, a Dominican missionary, printed by Thomas Iolly for readers in France. Its pictures are small woodcut and engraved ornaments: paired cherubs in acanthus scrolls, a decorative initial M within a ruled frame, and a fruit basket, useful to designers for period cartouches, headpieces and border motifs.

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

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