Traité général du commerce de l'Amérique. : Contenant l'histoire des découvertes des Européens dans cette partie du monde, son étendue, ses productions. La description & le commerce des côtes de Guinée, de Malaguete, d'Ivoire, d'Or, de la Barre de Juda, d

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2 v. :|bill., folded maps ;|c26 cm. (4to) 2nd Version/Copy Attributed to Chambon, receveur général des finances by Barbier, to Chambon, receveur des fermes by BN, and to Chambon, fl. 1775 by NUC Pre-1956 Originally printed under title: Le commerce de l'Amérique par Marseille, Avignon, 1764 and also printed as Le guide de commerce de l'Amérique, principalement par le port de Marseille, Avignon and Marseille, 1777 Includes a description of all commodities including cotton, sugar, indigo, ginger, cocoa, tobacco, coffee and slaves from all parts of the West Indies, and parts of Africa, the Antilles, Haiti, Western Africa, Canada, Louisiana, and French Guinea Pagination: v. 1: [8], 615, [1] p., [14] leaves of plates (6 folded); v. 2: [8], 618, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates (3 folded) Signatures: v. 1: pi A-4H; v. 2: pi A-4H 4I² (4I2 verso blank) Errata: v. 1: p. [1], 3rd group; v. 2: p. [1], 3rd group Includes indexes, chronologies, and explanations of plates in each volume Printer's ornaments on title pages; engraved head and tail pieces; intials Sabin Kress Lib Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes Brown, J.C. Cat., 1483-1800 John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2, v. 1 imperfect: 2 copies of "Amerique septentrionale" folded maps misbound to face p. [4], 1st group, v. 2; Copy 1 has "Amerique meridionale" folded map misbound to face p. 244 in v. 2 John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary mottled calf Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Ex Libris Lud. Amet natu majoris: bookplates on front pastedowns John Carter Brown Library copy 2, v. 2 bound as 1st item of 2 with copy 2 of: La richesse de l'Angleterre, contenant les causes de la naissance & des progrès de l'industrie, du commerce & de la marine de la Grande-Bretagne, les causes de leur décadence, & l'état de ses forces actuelles & de ses ressources / by Jacques Accarias de Sérionne, Vienna, 1771
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