Global voyages by history's greatest navigators

Description

First edition. Paris: Fr. Dufart, 1808. 12 volumes in-8°. Half-leather binding with damaged spine, marbled edges. Minor corner losses on 8 leaves, otherwise well-preserved interior. Illustrated with portraits, maps, and inset plates (total 61 plates across volumes). Complete collation: Vol. 1: XVI + 609 pp., 6 plates, portrait; Vol. 2: 472 pp., 4 plates, frontispiece, portrait; Vol. 3: 592 pp., 6 plates; Vol. 4: 500 pp., 5 plates, portrait; Vol. 5: 496 pp., 3 plates; Vol. 6: 447 pp., 4 plates, portrait; Vol. 7: 469 pp., 5 plates, portrait; Vol. 8: 432 pp., 6 plates, portrait; Vol. 9: 478 pp., 10 plates; Vol. 10: 575 pp., 13 plates; Vol. 11: 504 pp., 2 plates, portrait; Vol. 12: 324 pp., 7 plates. Important compilation featuring voyages by COLUMBUS, COOK, WALLIS, SPILBERG, LA PÉROUSE, BYRON, BOUGAINVILLE, DRAKE, SURVILLE and others. Includes detailed accounts of Africa, United States, Canada, South America, customs and ethnography of Pacific islands (Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, Tierra del Fuego), and Japan.