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Histoire des avanturiers flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes. Contenant ce qu'ils y ont fait de remarquable, avec la vie, les moeurs & les coutumes des boucaniers, & des habitans de S. Domingue & de la Tortue; une description exacte de ces lieux; et un etat des offices tant ecclésiastiques que séculieres, & ce que les plus grandes princes de l'Europe y possèdent. Le tout enrichi de cartes géographiques & de figures en taille-douce.... Nouvelle edition corrigée & augmentée de l'histoire des pirates anglois depuis leur etablissement dans l'Isle de la Providence jusqu'à présent.
Trevoux, par la Compagnie (4 vols.): Vol. 1: 1-394. Pls. 1 map.
–Allen 227. The engraved title page is dated 1743. Anatomie du Lamentin, 372-376, 1 fig. Allen says "This is an original account (at least written in the first person and evidently from observation) of the external characters and internal structure of the Manatee, its habits, capture, etc., with an (apparently) original figure. The figure, like Labat's, represents an old Manatee with a young one in her arms; the figure is more artistic than Labat's, and has the head of the young one directed forward instead of backward." The plate facing p. 373 also gives a figure of a manatee, together with three forms of harpoon used in capturing turtles and manatees. The material not included in earlier eds. (see Exquemelin, 1678) was, in Allen's view, probably added by the translator from one or more of the sources mentioned by him in his preface. However, according to Durand (1983: 133-135, 168-169), who gives a Spanish transl. of the text and reproduces the fig., this expanded account of the manatee dates mostly from the 1686 French ed. (pt. I, cap. xi), which Allen did not see.
A later French ed. (Lyon, Benoit & Joseph Duplain, 1774 [4 vols.]; Allen 329) is textually the same as the above, and likewise has the manatee material in vol. 1: 372-376.
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