Voyage de Louis Peltier par terre et par mer. Comprenant le récit de son voyage à la pêche à la baleine et de ses excursions en Afrique; écrit par lui-même

by Louis Peltier

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Quebec: imprimé au Bureau de La Réforme. Rue d'Aiguillon, Faubourg Saint-Jean, 1862. 8vo, pp. 64; errata slip mounted to rear pastedown; original printed mauve wrappers; very good. Contained in a quarter black morocco folding box. Peltier was born in 1811 in Montreal. A French-Canadian typesetter-turned-whaler, he traveled in 1834 first to Boston, from there to Quebec and back to Boston where he embarked on an 8-month whaling voyage on the

• Binding: Leather

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