8vo, 19.3cm, The First Edition, in 2 volumes, [3]-432 & 272pp., plus 10 engraved folding maps and plates; in contemporary full mottled calf, spines gilt stamped panel decorations and borders, original leather labels, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, a fine set of the first edition. (cgc) Spence 877. Howes P-13. Sabin 58168. Graff 3161. vide Cox, pp. 65-66, vide Hill, 1286, (The English edition, with an lengthy description). The first voyage, a lengthy one, is described in vol. I; it took the author from France to New Orleans, through the South, the Midwest and the West of North America, and on to Mexico, the Marianas, the Philippines, India and Persia. From there he went to Syria, Lebanon and the Holy Land, and from Acre back to France. Volume II relates his voyage to the South Polar regions in 1773 and 1774, and his voyage towards the North Pole in 1776. Seller Inventory # 40261

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Title: Voyages autour du Monde, et vers les deux ...

Publisher: Paris, chez Moutard. 1782

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition.

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