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Relation d'un Voyage du Pole Arctique, au Pole Antarctique, par le Centre du Monde, avec la description de ce périlleux Passage, & des choses merveilleuses & étonnantes qu'on a découvertes sous le Pole Anarctique. Seconde Edition. The Hague: chez Gerard Block, 1734. Small 8° (146 x 92mm). 7pp. of publishers'm advertisements. 5 folding engraved plates. (Two plates torn, one with tears affecting image area.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, covers with double fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat deoration in gilt, red stained edges (head of spine slightly chipped). Provenance: Hon. Charles Hamilton (1704-1786, armorial bookplate).
'SAID TO BE THE STRANGEST VOYAGE EVER RELATED' (Spence). A fine copy of what is either the third edition or the first edition, second issue - despite what is on the title page. The first was published in Amsterdam by N. Etienne Lucas in 1721 and the second in Paris by Noel Pissot in 1723. The presence of Lucas' advertisements (4pp) and a 3pp. 'Catalogue des Livres Nouveaux de l'Année 1720 & 1721' both suggest that this 'third' edition may consist of sheets of the first edition with a substitute title page. If this was the case then this work is actually a first edition, second issue, rather than a third edition. However a physical examination of the book does not bear this out. Sabin 69249; cf. Spence 966 (1721 edition).
Relation d'un Voyage du Pole Arctique, au Pole Antarctique, par le Centre du Monde, avec la description de ce périlleux Passage, & des choses merveilleuses & étonnantes qu'on a découvertes sous le Pole Anarctique. Seconde Edition. The Hague: chez Gerard Block, 1734. Small 8° (146 x 92mm). 7pp. of publishers'm advertisements. 5 folding engraved plates. (Two plates torn, one with tears affecting image area.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, covers with double fillet border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, the others with repeat deoration in gilt, red stained edges (head of spine slightly chipped). Provenance: Hon. Charles Hamilton (1704-1786, armorial bookplate).
'SAID TO BE THE STRANGEST VOYAGE EVER RELATED' (Spence). A fine copy of what is either the third edition or the first edition, second issue - despite what is on the title page. The first was published in Amsterdam by N. Etienne Lucas in 1721 and the second in Paris by Noel Pissot in 1723. The presence of Lucas' advertisements (4pp) and a 3pp. 'Catalogue des Livres Nouveaux de l'Année 1720 & 1721' both suggest that this 'third' edition may consist of sheets of the first edition with a substitute title page. If this was the case then this work is actually a first edition, second issue, rather than a third edition. However a physical examination of the book does not bear this out. Sabin 69249; cf. Spence 966 (1721 edition).
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