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LABAT, Pe. Jean-Baptiste, O.P.- Voyage du Chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisinnes. et a Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727. Contenant une description très exacte & très étendue de ces pays, & du commerce qui s'y fait.- A Amsterdam: aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1731.- 4 vols.: il.; 16 cm.- E. Counterfeit of the original edition published the previous year in Paris, illustrated with 27 copperplate prints (almost all of them folders) and five (in fact four) maps, according to the drawings that Renaud Marchais left in his will to the Dominican Labat (1663-1738). Copy missing a map: “Carte de la partie de Guinée...” which should be found next to p. 1 of volume II. Topographic labels from the R[odrigo] library. Felner. Copy slightly trimmed, with slight browning and signs of wormholes. Contemporary half-leather bindings, with some wear. Brunet, III, col. 707 (for the 1730 edition). Sabin, 38414.