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Hombron Adventures the most curious of travelers, glance around the world

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Hombron, Jacques Bernard.
The most curious adventures of travelers, a look around the world based on ancient and modern relationships and documents collected on the spot.
Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, Paris, 1847. 2 volumes in-8°, (16 x 24 cm), III, 496 & 476 pp. beautiful half-leather binding, (Versailles high school in inset), small traces of humidity on the last cover of the second volume, some light foxing , decorated with wood engravings & plates, some of which are in color.

Jacques-Bernard Hombron (1798-1852), Navy surgeon, was a friend of Dumont d’Urville with whom he circumnavigated the world on the Astrolabe.

Hombron, Jacques Bernard. The most curious adventures of travelers, a look around the world based on ancient and modern relationships and documents collected on the spot. Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, Paris, 1847. 2 volumes in-8°, (16 x 24 cm), III, 496 & 476 pp. beautiful half-leather binding, (Versailles high school in inset), small traces of humidity on the last cover of the second volume, some light foxing , decorated with wood engravings & plates, some of which are in color. Jacques-Bernard Hombron (1798-1852), Navy surgeon, was a friend of Dumont d’Urville with whom he circumnavigated the world on the Astrolabe.