[Carribean Islands] Labat, P. Nieuwe reizen naar de Franse Eilanden van America

Behelzende de natuurlyke historie van die landen, derzelfder oorspronk. zeden, godsdienst, regering der oude en tegenwoordige inwoonders, als ook die der zwarte slaaven (...) als ook een nauwkeurige verhandeling van het maken der suiker, indigo, cochenille, cacao, en andere nuttigheden, tot den koophandel dienende. P. Labat [trsl.]. W.C. Dyks. Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. Four parts in two uniform volumes, 4to. Rebound with reuse of original materials, new endpapers, spine titled in brown with gilt-stamped decoration. 350, 404; 235, 254, 200, 167 p. + index. Complete with 2 frontispices, 4 titles in red and black, 11 mostly fold. maps and plans and 83 full-page copper-engravings.

First Dutch edition of Labat's detailed journal in which he presents an account of his voyages to the Caribbean islands. The journal is filled with historical observations and contains important sociological, geographical, zoological, anthropological and gastronomical remarks and an extensive treatise on the cultivation of cocoa and the production of chocolate. The maps cover parts of North and South America with the Caribbean Islands, Martinique, Barbados, Santa Domingo etc. (total 2)