America.- [Bellegarde (Jean Baptiste Morvan de, Abbé)] A General History of all Voyages and Travels throughout the Old and New World..by Monsr. du Perier of the Royal Academy, first English edition, engraved frontispiece and 5 plates, some foxing, light worming to upper outer corner at beginning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked, [Sabin 21351], 8vo, for Edmund Curll...and Egbert Sanger, 1708.
⁂ Almost entirely concerning early Spanish voyages in the Americas and with much information on the native Americans. One plate depicts the natives in Jamaica catching parrots by disguising themselves with gourds on their heads in the rivers.
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