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ARAGO Jacques. Memories of a blind man. Voyage autour du monde. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839; 4 volumes in-8, contemporary half-basane, smooth spines decorated (volume 1 unstuck). First edition in this form, enlarged and abundantly illustrated: 2 portraits and 60 LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AFTER DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR who had been engaged as a draughtsman in a circumnavigation voyage: Australia, Hawaii, Tonga, Tierra del Fuego, Brazil. The work is rich in ethnographic observations on the island populations of the South Sea. - Some scattered foxing.
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ARAGO Jacques. Memories of a blind man. Voyage autour du monde. Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839; 4 volumes in-8, contemporary half-basane, smooth spines decorated (volume 1 unstuck). First edition in this form, enlarged and abundantly illustrated: 2 portraits and 60 LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES AFTER DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR who had been engaged as a draughtsman in a circumnavigation voyage: Australia, Hawaii, Tonga, Tierra del Fuego, Brazil. The work is rich in ethnographic observations on the island populations of the South Sea. - Some scattered foxing.
