Voyage à la Guiane et à Cayenne, fait en 1789 et années suivantes

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Author: Prudhomme, Louis-Marie (1752-1830) Year: Ano VI de la République (1797) Publisher: Chez l'éditeur Place: Paris Description: ix-[1]-400 pages with 4 plates including frontispiece and watercolor foldout map drawn and engraved on copper by Dalencour. Octavo (8" x 5") bound in half leather with spine label over speckled boards. Author's printed signature certifying that this edition is not counterfeit. French-Galibi dictionary pages 371-400. (Sabin 66412) First edition. Subtitle: Containing a geographical description of these countries, the History of their Discovery; the Possessions and Establishments of the French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese in this immense country. The climate, the productions of the land, the animals, the names of the rivers, that of the various savage nations, their customs, and the most advantageous trade that can be made there. The most remarkable features of the Oneroque and the Amazon River. Observations, 1 °. To enter the Port of Cayenne and anchor there; 2 °. To get out by avoiding all the dangers; 3 °. The Distances and the Roads of the main Places of Guiane, the Winds that reign on the Coasts. Followed by a French and Galibi vocabulary of the Names, Verbs and Adjectives most used in our language, compared to that of the Indians of Guiane, to be heard relative to the objects most necessary to the needs of life. Louis-Marie Prudhomme was a French journalist and historian. A bookseller in Lyon, then in Paris, Prudhomme settled in Meaux as a b

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