[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres

A$220 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece ( Prise de possession des Iles marquises ), previous owner s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New Guinea and New Holland, with sections on Aboriginal customs and the stories of Bennelong and Daniel Moowattin), Polynesia (New Zealand, Sandwich Islands, Society Islands, La Perouse and Dumont d Urville, Tonga, Easter Island) and Micronesia (Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Pelew Islands). Copies of the first edition of 1849 are held by the National Library of Australia and State Library of New South Wales.

• Binding: Hardcover

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