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AMADÉE FRANÇOIS FRÉZIER (1682-1773)
A Voyage to the South-Sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714 ... With a Postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley ... And an Account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London: Jonah Bowyer, 1717. 4° (250 x 195mm). Title in red and black. 37 engraved plates, maps and charts, some folding. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Retaining the instructions to the binder leaf [not called for by Borba de Moraes]. (Occasional light spotting and browning.) Contemporary Cambridge-panelled calf, panelled in blind, gilt board-edges, manuscript paper lettering-piece on spine, red-speckled edges (somewhat rubbed and scuffed, joints cracked, head of spine chipped). Provenance: early manuscript shelfmarks on front endpapers -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 'PREFERABLE TO THE [FRENCH EDITION] BY REASON OF HALLEY'S POSTSCRIPT, in which some geographical errors of Frézier are corrected' (Sabin). Of English descent, Frézier (originally Frazer) was a French military engineer who was instructed to construct forts in South America to protect the Spanish possessions from English and Dutch attacks, and to chart the western coast of South America: 'The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn, and was used by contemporary and later navigators. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru, describing the chief towns and cities. The observant Frézier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano' (Hill). It was first published in Paris in 1716 and this translation appeared the following year, illustrated with the plates of the French edition, to which was added a new map. The postscript by Halley (first printed here) contradicts Frézier's discovery of the islands by referring to Halley's own earlier chart, which depicts them already named Falkland's Isles. Borba de Moraes p. 329; Hill 654; Sabin 25926.
A Voyage to the South-Sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714 ... With a Postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley ... And an Account of the Settlement, Commerce, and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London: Jonah Bowyer, 1717. 4° (250 x 195mm). Title in red and black. 37 engraved plates, maps and charts, some folding. Woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Retaining the instructions to the binder leaf [not called for by Borba de Moraes]. (Occasional light spotting and browning.) Contemporary Cambridge-panelled calf, panelled in blind, gilt board-edges, manuscript paper lettering-piece on spine, red-speckled edges (somewhat rubbed and scuffed, joints cracked, head of spine chipped). Provenance: early manuscript shelfmarks on front endpapers -- Quentin Keynes (1921-2003).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 'PREFERABLE TO THE [FRENCH EDITION] BY REASON OF HALLEY'S POSTSCRIPT, in which some geographical errors of Frézier are corrected' (Sabin). Of English descent, Frézier (originally Frazer) was a French military engineer who was instructed to construct forts in South America to protect the Spanish possessions from English and Dutch attacks, and to chart the western coast of South America: 'The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn, and was used by contemporary and later navigators. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru, describing the chief towns and cities. The observant Frézier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano' (Hill). It was first published in Paris in 1716 and this translation appeared the following year, illustrated with the plates of the French edition, to which was added a new map. The postscript by Halley (first printed here) contradicts Frézier's discovery of the islands by referring to Halley's own earlier chart, which depicts them already named Falkland's Isles. Borba de Moraes p. 329; Hill 654; Sabin 25926.
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