ANSON, George. WALTER, Richard, compiler Voyage autour du Monde. Geneva, Henri-Albert Gosse, 1750
+, fait dans les Années MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Par George Anson, Présentement Lord Anson, Commandant en Chef d'une Escadre envoyée par Sa Majesté Britannique dans la Mer du Sud. Tiré des Journaux... par Richard Walter...
Quarto; title-page printed in black & red with engraved vignette, 34 engraved maps and plates, mostly folding; a fine copy in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments.
Early French edition of the famous account of Anson's voyage (there was an Amsterdam edition, in a different French translation, the previous year). This is a handsome copy of this elegant French quarto.
Alden, 'European Americana', 750/337; not in the catalogue of the Hill collection; Sabin, 1638.
$A6400
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