[Labat] 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. [4 parts in 2 vols.]. Amsterdam, Balthasar Lakeman, 1725. 4to, 4 parts in two uniform vols., rebound using original material, new endpapers, title on spine in brown and gilt stamping, 2x ills. frontispiece, 4x title in red and black, 350,404 and 235,254,200,167 pp. + index. Complete with 11 mostly folding maps and plans + 83 full-page copper-engraved images.

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)