Null Two-volume set, "L'invitation au Voyage, autour de la Donation Louis VUITTO…
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Two-volume set, "L'invitation au Voyage, autour de la Donation Louis VUITTON", Union des arts décoratifs, 1987; a work in Japanese is included.

Two-volume set, "L'invitation au Voyage, autour de la Donation Louis VUITTON", Union des arts décoratifs, 1987; a work in Japanese is included.

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DAMPIER (Guillaume): Nouveau voyage autour du monde, où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amérique, plusieurs côtes & isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Vert, (...) où l'on traite des différens terroirs de tous ces pays, de leurs ports, des planyes, des fruits, (...) de leur religion, de leurs gouvernements, de leur négoce, etc. Rouen, Jean-Baptiste Machuel le jeune, 1715. Three volumes. 9 by 16 cm. Frontispiece-(10)408-(23) pages, with 6 engravings (including 2 folding) and two maps; frontispiece-(4)-396-(10) pages, with 5 engravings (including 2 folding), and 4 maps; frontispiece-(8)-393-(10) pages, and 5 engravings (including 3 folding) and 2 maps. Full contemporary basane, 5-rib spine, ornate bindings, red title page. Small blemish at bottom of spine of volume II, spine edges faded. Few brown spots, otherwise good condition inside. Three of the 5 volumes in this edition of DAMPIER's voyage. Volume 1: New voyage around the world... Volume 2: Continuation of Voyage autour du monde (with treatise on winds) Volume 3: Supplément du Voyage autour du monde (including a description of Achin, city of Sumatra, the kingdom of Tonquin & other places in the Indies & the baye de Campêche). An orphan from Weymouth in Dorset, William Dampier (1651-1715) was the first Englishman to land in Australia and the first navigator to circumnavigate the globe three times. His work, originally published in English in 1697, caused a sensation: despite his buccaneering activities, his hydrographic, geographical and scientific observations won him academic acclaim.