Most bibliographers and librarians attribute the book "L'Histoire de la Jamaïque", published by Nourse 1751, to the British author Sir Hans Sloane. Wrong! This "L'Histoire' is a translation of a work published in Edinburgh in 1739. The author is Charles Leslie, and the book is called "A New and Exact Account of Jamaica". The French / English journalist Thibault Ehrengardt re-writes the history of a bibliographical confusion.