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Paperback / softback. New. The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amedee-Francois Frezier (1682-1773). They are reproduced in this popular travel account, reissued here in its English translation of 1717. The work also includes enlightened observations on the people, plants and animals encountered.

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355+[9]+index pages 36 of 37 maps and copper cuts of the coasts, harbor, cities, plants and other curiosities (comprising: 14 plates [3 folding], 22 maps, charts or plans [14 folding]). title page printed in red and black. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. Lacks the frontispiece map. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7 3/4") bound in leather with raised spine bands and red label with gilt lettering. Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement, commerce and riches of the Jesuits in Paraguay. (Palau 94965, Sabin 25926, Nissen ZBI 1433, Hill p117) First English edition.Frézier was educated in Paris and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 til 1707, when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru, Chili and Brazil, he returned to Marseilles. He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuille, and this led to a… Read More

London: Jonah Bowyer, 1717. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first English edition, bound in recent half-calf over marbled paper boards. New endpapers. Tooled spine with raised bands and gilt title label. Frontispiece plus 22 maps/plans and 14 other copper-plates -- a total of 37 plates (several of which are folding). No half-title. ii[blank]xii,344pp. Edges toned and slightly cockled; varied staining and foxing to text and plates; some offsetting from plates. A little worming in bottom margin mild scattered foxing internally. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. .

London:: Jonah Bowyer, 1717., 1717. 4to. [vi], [8], [2], 335, [xviii] pp. [Collates complete]. Title printed in red & black. 37 fine (the edition binder notes omit pl. XXX) engraved plates (numbered I-XXIX, XXXI-XXXVI, 36, XXXVII) [18 folding], music notation (p. 66), maps and charts, index; frontispiece map, title, and dedication pages with upper margins waterstained and damaged or trimmed (and repaired), worm trails from title through p. 10, burn-hole pp. 7-8, blotch-stains p. 289. CONTENTS includes: Dedication (top margin repaired with paper fill), Preface to the Reader, Directions to the binder, Postscript by Edmund Halley, Some Account of the Settlement of the Jesuits in the Spanish Indies, index. Original paneled calf; rebacked to style, raised bands, blind decorative devices in compartments, preserving original leather gilt-stamped spine label. With the ownership signature of N. [Neal] Harlow; inscription of the Kelso Library, [1757?]. Very good copy. First edition in English. "The first… Read More

London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717, First edition in English, best edition. . orig full leather boards with later spine and gilt title lettering on leather labels, light corner wear, joint cracked with repair but holding, map skillfully laid down, minor spotting, old bookplate of John Lenvis Petit, very good, interior clean & fine. 4to [24.5 x 19 cm]; [xii], [i, directions for binder], 335, [ix, index] pp, 37 engraved plates, maps & charts by J. B. Scotin, N. Guerard & others after Frezier, complete with frontis and all plates including 36 & xxxvi, musical notation. . Frezier's voyage was made on the orders of Louis XIV to obtain military information for a possible operation against Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast. He surveyed the Le Maire Strait and the west coast of Tierra de Fuego and produced the most accurate description of South America to date (including Chile, Peru). Sabin 25936. Cox II, 267: 'One of the most valuable of our early records of the Falkland Islands, and… Read More

London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717, First edition in English, best edition. . contemporary full leather, rebacked with leather spine, gilt title lettering on spine leather labels, cover with blind design, light offsetting on frontis, minor foxing, mainly marginal, a fine copy in attractive binding. . 4to [24.5 x 19 cm]; [xii], [i, directions for binder], 335, [ix, index] pp, 37 engraved plates, maps & charts by J. B. Scotin, N. Guerard & others after Frezier, complete with frontis and all plates including 36 & xxxvi, musical notation. . Frezier's voyage was made on the orders of Louis XIV to obtain military information for a possible operation against Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast. He surveyed the Le Maire Strait and the west coast of Tierra de Fuego and produced the most accurate description of South America to date (including Chile, Peru). Sabin 25936. Cox II, 267: 'One of the most valuable of our early records of the Falkland Islands, and to Frezier we are indebted for the… Read More

London: Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1717. First Edition of the English Translation. The author, a French military engineer, was sent to South America to inspect and construct Spanish fortifications for defence against English and Dutch attacks. He was instructed by the French government to chart the Pacific coast of South America for possible French military use at a later date. His account of his journey includes significant geographical and scientific information, and interesting descriptions of Chile, Peru, the Falkland Islands, and Brazil, including a relation of a visit to Santa Catharina in 1712 shortly following Duguay-Trouin’s attack. Of particular value was Frézier’s charting of the major South American cities and harbours, which proved useful to contemporary and later navigators. Hill also noted that it was Frézier who introduced to France, from Chile, the ancestor of the modern strawberry. The English edition is especially of interest because it contains a postscript by Dr. Edmund… Read More