Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 416

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(FALKLAND ISLANDS.) [Pernety, Antoine-Joseph.] The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands . . . in Order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an Account of the Patagonians. 16 engraved plates. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, backstrip darkened and worn, covers detached; occasional light soiling and marginal foxing, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title, stain in lower outer corner of page viii, plans of Montevideo and Accaron Bay cropped in lower margins, map of the Strait of Magellan cropped in upper and lower margins, final 3 plates of natural history subjects lightly foxed and offset; bookplate of Henry Marquand on front pastedown. London, 1771

Additional Details

first edition in english, with several new plans and charts, of this first-hand account of a French effort to colonize the Falkland Islands. Hill 1327, Palau 222526, Sabin 6870, Spence 907.