BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777).] Histoire des navigations aux Terres Australes. Contenant ce que l'on scait des moeurs & des productions des Contrées découvertes jusqu'à ce jour; & où il est traité de l'utilité d'y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d'y former un établissement . Paris: Durand, 1766. 2 volumes, 4to (508 x 196 mm). 7 engraved folding maps in vol. 2. (Some light soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (hinges weak, spine labels lacking, rubbed). Provenance : Hagley Hall (bookplates and stamps on title-pages). FIRST EDITION OF THIS "EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND THOROUGH COLLECTION OF VOYAGES" (Hill). Hill further notes that this is one of the outstanding works relating to the early history of Australasia. "It contains an account of all voyages, beginning with the second expedition of Vespucci in 1502 and ending in 1747, in which navigators touched upon the supposed southern continent of Magellaniea, which is now represented by Australia and some scattered islands in the Antarctic regions." Hill, pp. 34-5; Sabin 8388. (2)
BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777).] Histoire des navigations aux Terres Australes. Contenant ce que l'on scait des moeurs & des productions des Contrées découvertes jusqu'à ce jour; & où il est traité de l'utilité d'y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d'y former un établissement . Paris: Durand, 1766. 2 volumes, 4to (508 x 196 mm). 7 engraved folding maps in vol. 2. (Some light soiling.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (hinges weak, spine labels lacking, rubbed). Provenance : Hagley Hall (bookplates and stamps on title-pages). FIRST EDITION OF THIS "EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND THOROUGH COLLECTION OF VOYAGES" (Hill). Hill further notes that this is one of the outstanding works relating to the early history of Australasia. "It contains an account of all voyages, beginning with the second expedition of Vespucci in 1502 and ending in 1747, in which navigators touched upon the supposed southern continent of Magellaniea, which is now represented by Australia and some scattered islands in the Antarctic regions." Hill, pp. 34-5; Sabin 8388. (2)
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