(GUIANA.) Antoine Biet. Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne.
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(GUIANA.) Antoine Biet. Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne. [24], 432 pages. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear; internally clean. Paris: François Clouzier, 1664 The travel narrative of a priest who accompanied the French settlement of Cayenne in 1652. Pages 268-295 are devoted to his 1654 visit to Barbados; he also describes Martinique and Guadeloupe, and provides a glossary of the Galibi Carib language (pages 399-432). European Americana 664/15; Handler, Barbados page 5; JCB, pages III:106-7; European American 664/15; Sabin 5269; not in Hough's Lesser Antilles.
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(GUIANA.) Antoine Biet. Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'isle de Cayenne.
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