Abrégé de L'Histoire Générale Des Voyages. Tome Vingt-Deuxieme (Summary of the General Travel History. Volume Twenty-Two)
Paris: Chez Laporte, 1786. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 leaves, 56pp., 1 folding map, 558pp., 2 plates. Original full calf with gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Decorative endpapers. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative, historiated headpieces. This travelog of Captain Cook's third voyage contains most remarkable, most useful and proven facts of the countries described. It includes descriptions of customs of the inhabitants, religion, arts, science, commerce, manufactures, and is enriched with a geographic map of the Northern part of the Pacific, and two plates, depicting an indigenous man and a young woman of Tahiti. Text in French. Binding with some wear, chips and holesfrom bookworms along edges, some scuffing and rubbing. Some water staining along foredge of last fifty pages. Binding in overall fair, interior in very good condition. fair to vg. Item #46942
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