Curious adventures of travelers around the world

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HOMBRON, Jacques Bernard. Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs, coup d'oeil autour du monde d'après les relations anciennes et modernes et des documents recueillis sur les lieux. Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Paris, 1847. 2 volumes in-8°, (16 x 24 cm), III, 496 & 476 pp. Fine half-leather binding (Lycée de Versailles medallion), minor moisture traces on last cover of second volume, some light foxing, illustrated with wood engravings & plates, some in color. Jacques-Bernard HOMBRON (1798-1852), naval surgeon and friend of Dumont d'Urville, circumnavigated the world aboard the Astrolabe.