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981 - LEGUAT, François Voyage et avantures de François Leguat, & de ses compagnons, en deux isles desertes des Indes orientales [...]. Le tout enrichi de cartes et de figures. London D. Mortier 1708 2 vol., 12mo: [14 incl. front.]-xxviii (of xxx)-164, [4 incl. front.]-180-[34] pp.; 29 (of 32) pl. (3 pl. missing in vol. 1, missing pp. xxix-xxx from introduction in vol. 1, some pl. split along folds or with tears in folds, marg. hole in pl. p. 36 in vol. 1, some spotting or staining). Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands (rather rubbed). Rare first edition of the travels of the French explorer and naturalist Fr. Leguat (1638-1735). Ill. with 2 front. (repeated), an arm. headpiece and 29 plates a.o. fold. maps ("Carte de l'Isle de Djego-Ruys","Isle de Bourbon apellée Mascarenas") and plates showing "un singe extraordinaire", rhinoceroses, Hottentots and endemic species now extinct. Leguat settled as part of a small group of French Protestant refugees on the uninhabited island of Rodrigues. After two years they escaped to Mauritius from where they arrived back in Europe in 1698. His adventures are noted for theobservationson natural history of the now extinct fauna of Rodrigues. Ref. Chadenat 1150 & 1653. - Gay 3031.
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LEGUAT, François Voyage et avantures de François Leguat, & de ses compagnons, en deux isles desertes des Indes orientales [...]. Le tout enrichi de cartes et de figures. London D. Mortier 1708 2 vol., 12mo: [14 incl. front.]-xxviii (of xxx)-164, [4 incl. front.]-180-[34] pp.; 29 (of 32) pl. (3 pl. missing in vol. 1, missing pp. xxix-xxx from introduction in vol. 1, some pl. split along folds or with tears in folds, marg. hole in pl. p. 36 in vol. 1, some spotting or staining). Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands (rather rubbed). Rare first edition of the travels of the French explorer and naturalist Fr. Leguat (1638-1735). Ill. with 2 front. (repeated), an arm. headpiece and 29 plates a.o. fold. maps ("Carte de l'Isle de Djego-Ruys","Isle de Bourbon apellée Mascarenas") and plates showing "un singe extraordinaire", rhinoceroses, Hottentots and endemic species now extinct. Leguat settled as part of a small group of French Protestant refugees on the uninhabited island of Rodrigues. After two years they escaped to Mauritius from where they arrived back in Europe in 1698. His adventures are noted for theobservationson natural history of the now extinct fauna of Rodrigues. Ref. Chadenat 1150 & 1653. - Gay 3031.
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