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LAET, JOHANNES DE. L'Histoire du Nouveau Monde. 14 double-page maps, text illustrations. Folio, modern library cloth, worn; wear and repairs to title page and final 2 leaves, moderate dampstaining, dates inscribed in margins; early owner's signature and perforated library stamp on title page, library bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, inked library stamps on verso of plate and title page. Leiden: Chez Bonaventure & Abraham Elseviers, 1640
first french edition. Book III is devoted to the Virginia colony, New England, and what became New York. "Contains many materials not to be found in the original Dutch, chiefly vocabularies of Indian tribes"--Sabin 38558. Borba de Moraes, page 451 (calls this "the most complete edition . . . used as an atlas during the entire second part of the seventeenth century"); European Americana 640/111; Palau 129561; Vail 96.
