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GEORGE ANSON

WALTER, Richard, compiler. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les anneés MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Geneva: Henri-Albert Gosse, 1750. 4° (244 x 185 mm). Half-title, title-page printed in red and black. 34 engraved maps, all but 2 folding, wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. (Corner repaired to pl. 3 not affecting engraved area, variable light browning throughout.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: D. de Nobele (Parisian bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper). Later edition in French. Sabin 1637.

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