Singularites des isles de l'Amerique / tires des voyages [d]u R.P.J.B. Labat de l'ordre des freres prech[eu]rs. 1768.

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Singularites des isles de l'Amerique / tires des voyages [d]u R.P.J.B. Labat de l'ordre des freres prech[eu]rs. 1768.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33068879

Illustrated ms. copy, dated October 1768 at Besancon, of selected passages from Labat's extensive Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amérique, first published in 1722.

[44] leaves, 34 leaves of plates, bound : ill. ; 20 cm.

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