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UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

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Nabu Press, 2010-02-23. Paperback. Good.

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An historic copper-plate engraving of the world from English explorer William Dampier's Nouveau voyage autour du monde which shows the route Dampier took on a circumnavigation. Depicts California as an island. Text in the original French.7.5 x 12 inches.

Rouen: Robert Machuel le jeune & Eustache Heraul, 1715. Title pages printed in red and black (vols. II, III, V with ornamental vignette). With 33 engraved maps, plans and coastal profiles (14 folding), 33 engraved plates, including engraved frontispieces for vols. I, II, and III (12 folding), illustration of comets in text at V:224. 5 vols. 8vo. Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt, marbled endsheets. Headcap of one volume with old repair, another with small scuff, occasional light traces of dampstaining. Very good. Title pages printed in red and black (vols. II, III, V with ornamental vignette). With 33 engraved maps, plans and coastal profiles (14 folding), 33 engraved plates, including engraved frontispieces for vols. I, II, and III (12 folding), illustration of comets in text at V:224. 5 vols. 8vo. Attractive set of the first collected edition of Dampier in any language to include the related accounts of Cowley, Sharp and Wood. Borba de Moraes, I, pp. 205-206; Sabin 18383

[10], 315; [1 blank]; [2], "316", [1], 317-616, [4] pp.First French edition of William Dampier's account of his voyage around the world and especially to the south seas in the years 1683 to 1691. Dampier (1651-1715) sailed to Sierra Leone, from there to the Falkland Islands, Cape Horn, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and further to New Guinea, in the area which was to become known as Dampier Land. He went ashore in Australia, sailed on to Sumatra, the Cape of Good Hope, and back to Europe. Although John Brooke probably shipwrecked on the Australian coast in 1621 without knowing what it was, Dampier was otherwise the first Englishman to set foot in Australia. Dampier had spent several years as a buccaneer, but in the present book he diplomatically made no attempt to exploit the more sensational aspects of his adventures, concentrating on hydrographic, geographic and scientific details. This helped him establish his legitimacy, bringing immediate academic acclaim… Read More