Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 315

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SOUTH AMERICA.) Frézier, Amédée François. A Voyage to the South-Sea, and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru. 4to, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine label laid down; lacking frontispiece map and binder's leaf, free endpapers renewed, intermittent foxing. London, 1717
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First English edition, with additional postscript by Edmund Halley (the comet guy). "Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano. Frézier introduced the ancestor of the modern strawberry to France from Chile"--Hill 654. Borba de Moraes page I:329; European Americana 717/66; Palau 94965; Sabin 25926.