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- Voyage dans les deux Amériques by ALCIDE…

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GEOGRAPHY: 10 books including : - Voyage dans les deux Amériques by ALCIDE D'ORBIGNY - Voyage en Asie et en Afrique by EYRIES and ALFRED JACOBS - 3 volumes: La France illustrée: Finistère et Manche, Ain et Eure et Loire, Atlas by V.A MALTE-BRUN - Victor HUGO, religions et religion, l'âne, les châtiments, l'année terrible - History of the plebiscite by Erckmann-Chatrian (wear and tear)

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GEOGRAPHY: 10 books including : - Voyage dans les deux Amériques by ALCIDE D'ORBIGNY - Voyage en Asie et en Afrique by EYRIES and ALFRED JACOBS - 3 volumes: La France illustrée: Finistère et Manche, Ain et Eure et Loire, Atlas by V.A MALTE-BRUN - Victor HUGO, religions et religion, l'âne, les châtiments, l'année terrible - History of the plebiscite by Erckmann-Chatrian (wear and tear)

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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.

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COOK (James). - Centenary of Cook's death celebrated on February 14, 1879 at the Hotel de la Société de géographie. Extract from Bulletin de la Société de géographie (May 1879). Paris, Société de géographie, 1879. In-8, half cloth bradel circa 1900. With a folding map tracing Cook's three voyages from 1768 to 1779, and a Descriptive and Methodical Catalogue of the Exhibition by E. T. Hamy. Small tear to map, covers rebacked.

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