Histoire de l'Isle espagnole ou de S. Domingue: ecrite particulierement sur des memoires manuscrits du p. Jean-Baptiste le Pers, jesuite, missionnaire a Saint Domingue (Volume 2) (1730-1731)

Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix; Jean Baptiste Le Pers

Paris : Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, 1730-31.

Volume 2 only. Printed 1731 (Vol 1 was printed 1730, this is the 2 volume, 1st edition).  xiv, 506, [60] p., [9] leaves of plates (some folded).   Includes indexes.  Bound in later 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Some shelf wear to cover, binding sound.  Extensive restoration work to most of 60 p. index. Also some restoration work to title page. Minor toning. 

A history of the Island of Santo Domingo (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) from its discovery in 1492 to 1724.    An important early history of the indigenous Indian and black populations written by a French Jesuit priest.  Alden & Landis, European Americana 730/45; Palau 67166; Sabin 12127; LeClerc 1371; Brunet I, 1806.