(FALKLAND ISLANDS) Pernetty Antoine Joseph Histoire dun Voya

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(FALKLAND ISLANDS.) Pernetty, Antoine Joseph. Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines. 4 folding maps, 14 folding plates. iv, 384, [3]; [2], 334, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, minor wear; intermittent dampstaining, first title page detached; later owner's inscription on first title page. Paris, 1770

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Second edition. Describes the 1763 French expedition to colonize the Malouines--the small subantarctic archipelago which the Argentines now call the Malvines and the British inhabitants call the Falklands. Long sections are devoted to the expedition's excursion to Brazil's Santa Catarina Island. Borba de Moraes, page 662; Palau 223525; Sabin 60996.