CHARLES DE BROSSES (1709-1777)
CHARLES DE BROSSES (1709-1777) Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes . Paris: J. Chardon for Durand, 1756. 2 volumes, 4° (247 x 193mm.). Vol. I with additional leaves pp. 437*-450*, 6pp. of errata. 7 folding engraved maps by Robert de Vaugondy, wood-engraved device on title, head- and tailpieces, and initials. (Some variable browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn and expertly repaired). Provenance : 19th-century bookseller's price of £1-19-0 on front pastedown -- A. Jacob (ink ownership inscription dated 'Feb. 17 1823' on front pastedowns). FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND THOROUGH COLLECTION OF VOYAGES , and 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 ... The work ... is of special importance because de Brosses proposes that France should settle Australia with her foundlings, beggars, and criminals... His goal [in publishing this work] was to stimulate French discovery and colonization in the South Seas.' (Hill). Cox I, 18; Hill 190; Sabin 8388.
CHARLES DE BROSSES (1709-1777)
CHARLES DE BROSSES (1709-1777) Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes . Paris: J. Chardon for Durand, 1756. 2 volumes, 4° (247 x 193mm.). Vol. I with additional leaves pp. 437*-450*, 6pp. of errata. 7 folding engraved maps by Robert de Vaugondy, wood-engraved device on title, head- and tailpieces, and initials. (Some variable browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, corners worn and expertly repaired). Provenance : 19th-century bookseller's price of £1-19-0 on front pastedown -- A. Jacob (ink ownership inscription dated 'Feb. 17 1823' on front pastedowns). FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND THOROUGH COLLECTION OF VOYAGES , and 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 ... The work ... is of special importance because de Brosses proposes that France should settle Australia with her foundlings, beggars, and criminals... His goal [in publishing this work] was to stimulate French discovery and colonization in the South Seas.' (Hill). Cox I, 18; Hill 190; Sabin 8388.
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