MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- LA PÉROUSE, J.F.G. DE. The Voyage of La Pérouse round the World, in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the nautical Tables. Arranged by M.L.A. Milet Mureau. To which is annexed, Travels over the Continent, with the Dispatches of La Pérouse (…) M. de Lesseps. Lond., J. Stockdale, 1798. 2 vols. (20), cxc, 290; vii, 442, 56, 119, (1) pp. W. 2 engr. fronts., 1 large fold. world map, 7 smaller maps (2 fold.), 40 (of 41) plates & views. Cont. marbled cf. w. gilt ruled spine & red labels. (Joints of both vols. delicate, partly split, wear to corners & extremities, world map w. 1 repaired tear, some plates w. stains in the margins, several tissue guards frayed, without plate p. 182 (Massacre of Messrs. de Langle...), a facsimile bound in).
One of the two English translations of this work that appeared, near simultaneously, in 1798. Sabin 38964; Cox I, p. 66f.€ 800
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