PAGÈS, Pierre Marie François, Vicomte de (1748-1793). Voyages autour du Monde et vers les deux poles, par terre et par mer, pendant les années 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774 & 1776 . Paris: Moutard, 1782. First edition of de Pagès’s three voyages around the world , including an overland journey through Lousiana up the Mississippi and an important early account of the Southern polar regions. In addition to his circumnavigation, Pagès served on Kerguélen-Trémarec's unsuccessful voyage to the South Pole and travelled to Spitzbergen on a Dutch Whaler. Howes P-13; Sabin 58168. 2 volumes, octavo (193 x 121mm). Half-titles, 3 folding engraved plates, 7 folding engraved maps (one plate slightly stained, 2 marginal tears, one into text). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt. Provenance : Biblioth è que d’Ètiau (ink stamp on half-titles).
PAGÈS, Pierre Marie François, Vicomte de (1748-1793). Voyages autour du Monde et vers les deux poles, par terre et par mer, pendant les années 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774 & 1776 . Paris: Moutard, 1782. First edition of de Pagès’s three voyages around the world , including an overland journey through Lousiana up the Mississippi and an important early account of the Southern polar regions. In addition to his circumnavigation, Pagès served on Kerguélen-Trémarec's unsuccessful voyage to the South Pole and travelled to Spitzbergen on a Dutch Whaler. Howes P-13; Sabin 58168. 2 volumes, octavo (193 x 121mm). Half-titles, 3 folding engraved plates, 7 folding engraved maps (one plate slightly stained, 2 marginal tears, one into text). Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt. Provenance : Biblioth è que d’Ètiau (ink stamp on half-titles).
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