Author: FLEURIEU, C. P. CLARET (CHARLES PIERRE CLARET)
Title: A voyage round the world : performed during the years 1790, 1791 and 1792
Description: Amsterdam; Israel: New York; Da Capo Press 1969. Fine Facsimile Reprint. An exceptional copy with mylar-sleeved simile vellum. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective wrapping.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 361 pages; Physical desc.: 2v (cxxviii. 361. xi. 503 pp) : tables ; 21cm. Folded maps. Series: Bibliotheca Australiana # 23. 24. Notes: Includes at end of Vol. 2: 'Journal of the route of the ship Solide. during her voyage round the world / by Captain Prosper Chanal' (105p.) Translation of volumes 1-2 of the Paris edition (1798). Subjects: Voyages and Travels Discoveries (in Geography) Navigation Americas Pacific Region Description and Travel CustomsEighteenth Century Explorers French. Summary: This French circumnavigation. was preceded only by Bougainville's. It added considerably to the scanty knowledge of N.W. America and included a scholarly survey of earlier maritime explorers.' (Wright Howes. US-iana.) At the end of the account is appended an important nautical. hydrographical. and astronomical treatise. together with accounts of the fishes. shells. birds. and plants. etc. observed during the voyage. by Étienne Marchand. preceded by a historical introduction. and illustrated by charts. etc. Translated from the French of C.P. Claret Fleurieu.Weight in Kg appr.:

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