[TRAVEL]. ROGERS, Woodes (d.1732). Voyage autour du monde, commence en 1708 & fini en 1711. Amsterdam: Widow of Paul Marret, 1716.

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[TRAVEL]. ROGERS, Woodes (d.1732). Voyage autour du monde, commence en 1708 & fini en 1711. Amsterdam: Widow of Paul Marret, 1716.
2 volumes, 12o (159 x 92 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces, 14 engraved plates and 5 folding maps including a large map of South America (South America map backed with paper, some creasing and short tears). Contemporary calf, spines gilt (a bit rubbed, spine ends chipped). Provenance: Eduardo Obejero Urquiza (bookplates). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of a buccaneering classic. Roger's expedition left Bristol in 1708 with Dampier as pilot. They sailed down the coast of Brazil and rounded the Cape. Their ensuing adventures provided the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe: they met a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, whose quarrels with his captain had left him abandoned on Juan Fernandez island for four years and four months until Rogers found him and brought him back. Alden and Landis 716/108; Borba de Moraes II:745; Howes R-421; Wagner Southwest 78c.

GRAND PIERRE, Drasle de. Relation de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amerique & aux Indes Occidentales. Paris: Jombert, 1718. 12o (167 x 93 mm). Contemporary calf (joints cracked). Provenance: Old inscription erased from title page. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 28273.

DALRYMPLE, Alexander (1737-1808). Voyages dans la Mer du Sud ... traduit de l' Anglois ... par M. de Freville. Paris: Saillant & Nyon and Pissot, 1774. 8o (188 x 119 mm). Half-title. 3 engraved folding maps (some soiling along folds, few old repairs on versos). Contemporary mottled calf, smooth spine gilt (rubbed, chips at ends of spine). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, an abridged version of his Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, 1769. Hill, p.392; Sabin 18344. (4)