Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

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Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, the French East India Company captain who sailed in search of Davis Land, a fabled island in the South Pacific, in 1769-70. Towards the end of 1769 the ships of Surville and Cook, on his first voyage, narrowly missed an encounter in New Zealand waters. Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesiana , 448.

• Binding: Hardcover

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