Indian Ocean.- Leguat (François) A New Voyage to the East-Indies...Containing their Adventures in two Desart Islands...Maurice Island, Batavia, at the Cape of Good Hope...St.Helena..., first English edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 32 engraved plates and maps, many folding, including large plate with letterpress verses opposite p.104, with advertisement leaf and 4pp. catalogue bound after dedication (latter not called for by ESTC) and another advertisement leaf at end, text browned but plates very clean, large map torn and repaired, old ink signature of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby at head of title and with his bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked with red morocco label, [Mendelssohn pp.875-77], 8vo, R.Bonwicke, W.Freeman [etc.], 1708. ⁂ Possibly an imaginary voyage and a compilation of previous writings, the book recounts the voyage of a party of Huguenots under Leguat, sent by the Dutch government to the Ile de Bourbon (Réunion), but on finding the island occupied by the French, the party sailed on to Rodriguez Island, where they stayed for two years before proceeding to Mauritius. The plates mostly feature flora and fauna including flying fish, a pineapple, rhinoceroses, "extraordinary plants", and a Rodriguez Solitaire, a close relation to the Dodo, which was extinct by 1746.
Indian Ocean.- Leguat (François) A New Voyage to the East-Indies...Containing their Adventures in two Desart Islands...Maurice Island, Batavia, at the Cape of Good Hope...St.Helena..., first English edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 32 engraved plates and maps, many folding, including large plate with letterpress verses opposite p.104, with advertisement leaf and 4pp. catalogue bound after dedication (latter not called for by ESTC) and another advertisement leaf at end, text browned but plates very clean, large map torn and repaired, old ink signature of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby at head of title and with his bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, rebacked with red morocco label, [Mendelssohn pp.875-77], 8vo, R.Bonwicke, W.Freeman [etc.], 1708. ⁂ Possibly an imaginary voyage and a compilation of previous writings, the book recounts the voyage of a party of Huguenots under Leguat, sent by the Dutch government to the Ile de Bourbon (Réunion), but on finding the island occupied by the French, the party sailed on to Rodriguez Island, where they stayed for two years before proceeding to Mauritius. The plates mostly feature flora and fauna including flying fish, a pineapple, rhinoceroses, "extraordinary plants", and a Rodriguez Solitaire, a close relation to the Dodo, which was extinct by 1746.
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