Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deus poles, par terre et par mer

by Pierre Marie Francois Pagès

$3,200 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Paris: chez Moutard, 1782. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. 432; 272; 10 engraved folding charts and plates; a very nice copy in contemporary and likely original full French mottled calf, gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments, red and green morocco labels in 2 one label faded ; lightly rubbed but on the whole a near fine set. Pagès received a commission to discover a northwest passage by way of the eastern coast of Asia. He started out in 1767 by

• Binding: Leather

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