Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, Contenant ce que l'on scait des moeurs & des productions des Contrees decouvertes jusqu'a ce jour

by Charles de Brosses

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Seven engraved folding maps. 2 ,xiv,463pp. and pp.437-50, pagination repeated ; 2 ,513, 1 pp. Without the 6pp. of errata found in some copies. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, a bit worn and rubbed, joints cracked but cords holding. Provenance: Marquess of Landsdowne armorial bookplate . Sabin 8388; Hill 190; Kropelien 132; Tooley, Mapping of Australis pp.215, 294; Australian Bibliography, Part I, p.59.

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