'Note relative à la circumnavigation de la Corvette la Bonite' Notes relating to Vaillant's circumnavigation in the Bonite

by Vaillant Voyage, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet

A$12,750 · Offered by Hordern House

Paris: circa 1835. Four-page handwritten manuscript on wove paper, 300 x 205 mm., extensively annotated and corrected, some tiny losses to the paper from deterioration of the original iron gall ink but generally excellent, legible and complete; held together with an old hand-made pin. Freycinet agonises over instructions for a successor

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