ANSON George / WALTER Richard :

Lot 78
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700 - 900 EUR
ANSON George / WALTER Richard :
Voyage around the world made in the years MDCCXL, I, II, IV. Followed by Voyage à la mer du sud. Two books bound in one. In-octavo full calf, spine with 5 nerves, rubbed gilt boxes, title piece on red leather. Voyage autour du monde. Geneva, Henri-Albert Gosse et compagnie libraires et imprimeurs, 1750. Second edition in French, translation by Elias de JONCOURT. Complete with 34 plates, almost all folding, representing maps, views and plans. Voyage à la mer du Sud. Lyon frères Duplain éditeur, Louis Buisson imprimeur, 1756. First French edition of this supplement to Anson's voyage on the adventures of the survivors of the Wager shipwreck in Patagonia. In the margins a few wormholes at the beginning of the book, small traces of wetness or small lacks, a few yellowed pages otherwise fresh interior. Four years of navigation that brought Anson and only a handful of men back to English soil and that the account collected from the logs by Richard Walter, sexton of the ship, tells ... well before the accounts of Bougainville and Cook
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