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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0769
Record number:
0769-13
JCB call number:
E658 R674h (copy 1)
Image title:
[Du Cocos, & du Cacao.]
Place image published:
[Rotterdam]
Image publisher:
[Chez Arnould Leers]
Image date:
[1658]
Image function:
illustration; p. 65
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
8.3 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
11.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
23.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
16.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Fruit or drupe of the coconut palm tree.
Source creator:
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683
Source Title:
Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. ...
Source place of publication:
Roterdam [Rotterdam]
Source publisher:
Chez Arnould Leers
Source date:
M.DC.LVIII [1658]
notes:
This is the fruit or drupe of Cocos nucifera, the coconut (or cocoanut) palm tree. It is found throughout the tropical world. Charles de Rochefort was pastor of the French Protestant Church at Rotterdam and resided for several years in the West Indies. Cf. Labat, Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique ... Paris, 1742 (#35892-21) for a later version of the image. Image title from chapter title.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
http://www.ilab.org… http://hort.ufl.edu… (April 2008)
Provenance/Donor:
Former collection C. L. Duboyer. Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Coconut palm
Subject headings:
Botany--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Natural history--Caribbean area

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