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BERGERON Pierre, Jean de BETTENCOURT, Pierre BONTHIER, Jean LE VERRIER. A treatise on navigation and modern voyages of discovery and conquest, mainly by the French. With an exact and particular description of all the Canary Islands The genealogy of the Betencourts (sic) & Braquemons (sic). All collected from various authors. Following: History of the first discovery and conquest of the Canaries. Faite des l'an 1402 par Messire Jean de Bethencourt Paris, J. de Heuqueville ; M. Soly, 1629 ; 2 volumes in-12, old speckled calf bindings, gilt arms on the boards, spines with ornamented nerves (small wormholes at the end of the first volume as well as on a dozen pages at the end of the second volume). First and only edition of this rare work. One of the first French publications devoted to the history of maritime explorations. Beautiful engraved portrait of J. de Bethencourt. BINDING WITH THE ARMS OF LOUIS-URBAIN LE FÈVRE DE CAUMARTIN (1653-1720), one of Voltaire's correspondents (Borba de Moraes, I, page 87).
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BERGERON Pierre, Jean de BETTENCOURT, Pierre BONTHIER, Jean LE VERRIER. A treatise on navigation and modern voyages of discovery and conquest, mainly by the French. With an exact and particular description of all the Canary Islands The genealogy of the Betencourts (sic) & Braquemons (sic). All collected from various authors. Following: History of the first discovery and conquest of the Canaries. Faite des l'an 1402 par Messire Jean de Bethencourt Paris, J. de Heuqueville ; M. Soly, 1629 ; 2 volumes in-12, old speckled calf bindings, gilt arms on the boards, spines with ornamented nerves (small wormholes at the end of the first volume as well as on a dozen pages at the end of the second volume). First and only edition of this rare work. One of the first French publications devoted to the history of maritime explorations. Beautiful engraved portrait of J. de Bethencourt. BINDING WITH THE ARMS OF LOUIS-URBAIN LE FÈVRE DE CAUMARTIN (1653-1720), one of Voltaire's correspondents (Borba de Moraes, I, page 87).
