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WEST INDIES -- ROCHEFORT, Ch. de. Natuurlyke en zedelyke Historie van d'Eylanden de Voor-Eylanden van Amerika. Met eenen Caraïbaanschen Woorden-schat. Vert. in Nederduytsch d. H. Dullaart. Rott., A. Leers, 1662. (40), 475, (11) pp, last blank. W. fine engr. ti., 6 fold. engr. and 37 engr. in text., varying in size. 4°. Cont. cf., a.e.g. (Bind. dam. (spine gone, sides detached), but in good interior condition, apart from some light age-toning/browning).
Charles de Rochefort (1605-1683), French Huguenot minister and missionary. He spent at least a decade in the Caribbean, from 1636 to the mid- 1640's, on Tobago and what we now call St. Kitts, before returning to take up a post as minister at a Huguenot Church in Rotterdam, a position that he held the rest of his life. - Sabin 72320; Tiele 926; Nissen, ZBI 3448; Brooks, Tobacco, p. 329-337: "(…) presents some valuable additions to the records of the nomenclature and of the husbandry and commerce of tobacco".€ 400
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