Lot 199
Voyages.- Pages (Pierre Marie Francois, Vicomte de) Voyages autour du Monde, et vers les deux Poles, Paris, 2 vol., 1782.
Hammer Price: £500
Description
Voyages.- Pages (Pierre Marie Francois, Vicomte de) Voyages autour du Monde, et vers les deux Poles, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 10 folding engraved maps and plates, vol.2 D1 marginal tear, D2 water-stain, contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, a little rubbed but a handsome set, 8vo, Paris, 1782.
⁂ Accounts of the author's three voyages the first of which included visits to New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi (shown on map 2), before continuing to Acapulco and then on to Manilla, India and Lebanon. In 1773 he was part of Kerguelen's second voyage to Australia; and in 1776 he embarked on a whaling expedition to Spitzbergen and the northern lands; the final plate depicts a caught whale being cut up.
Description
Voyages.- Pages (Pierre Marie Francois, Vicomte de) Voyages autour du Monde, et vers les deux Poles, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 10 folding engraved maps and plates, vol.2 D1 marginal tear, D2 water-stain, contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, a little rubbed but a handsome set, 8vo, Paris, 1782.
⁂ Accounts of the author's three voyages the first of which included visits to New Orleans and the mouth of the Mississippi (shown on map 2), before continuing to Acapulco and then on to Manilla, India and Lebanon. In 1773 he was part of Kerguelen's second voyage to Australia; and in 1776 he embarked on a whaling expedition to Spitzbergen and the northern lands; the final plate depicts a caught whale being cut up.