Les Avantures de Jacques Sadeur dans la découverte et le voyage de la Terre Australe…

by Gabriel de Foigny

A$1,200 · Offered by Hordern House

Amsterdam: David Mortier, 1732. Small octavo; contemporary French mottled calf, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands, red morocco label. First use of the word Australien to describe an inhabitant of the southern continent

• Binding: Leather

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