Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 434

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MEXICO.) Chappé d'Auteroche, Jean. A Voyage to California, to observe the Transit of Venus . . . With an Historical Description of the Author's Route through Mexico, and the Natural History of that Province. Also, a Voyage to Newfoundland and Sallee, to make Experiments on Mr. Le Roy's Time Keepers. Folding engraved plan of Mexico City. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached; includes half-title, soiling on title and elsewhere, light marginal dampstaining along fore-edge of last few leaves; bookplate of James Torr Harmer on front pastedown. London, 1778
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first edition in english. "A thrilling account of a race against time to reach Lower California before the transit of Venus occurred"-- Streeter sale IV:2443 (1772 original edition in French). DSB III:197-98, Hill 279, Sabin 12003, Wagner Spanish Southwest 158a.