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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- FREZIER, A.F. Reis-beschryving door de Zuid-zee, langs de kusten van Chili, Peru en Brazil, opgestelt op eene reistocht, gedaan in de jaren 1712, 1713, en 1714. Nevens eene beschryvinge van de regeringe der Yncas, Koningen van Peru (...). Vert. d. I. Verburg. Amst., R. & G. Wetstein, 1718. (16), 406, (9) pp. W. engr. front., & 37 (fold.) maps/plans/plates. 4°. Cont. cf. w. raised bands, dec. gilt back, brown label, & mottled edges. (Upper joint split at the ends, else an impeccable copy).
First and only Dutch edition, first published in French as Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud (Paris, 1716). The ninth plate shows the Chilean game of La Sueca and is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a form of golf. Includes an anonymous treatise about the application of Indian governing practices by Jesuits in Paraguay. - Tiele 361; Cat NHSM I, p. 280; Borba de Moraes I, p. 329; Sabin 25927; Hill 653-54 (French and English ed.).€ 700
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