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Sale 2708 - Lot 268

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(TRAVEL.) François Froger. Relation d'un Voyage . . . aux Cotes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Bresil, Cayenne, et Isles Antilles. 12 maps, 17 plates including engraved additional title page. [12], 227 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; minor dampstaining, early manuscript list of plates on rear endpapers; inked early library stamps on title and third leaf, and verso of some plates. Amsterdam: heirs of Antoine Schelte, 1699
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First Amsterdam edition; first published in Paris in 1698. An account of a French privateering expedition under Jean-Baptiste de Gennes, written by a 19-year-old crew member. It describes a raid upon a British slave trading post in Gambia, a failed effort to pass through the Straits of Magellan, visits to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia in Brazil, Cayenne in French Guiana, and other stops. Natural history was a particular interest. "The part about Brazil is excellent. He describes Rio and Bahia vividly and gives a most remarkable commentary on the Jesuit convent in Bahia"--Borba de Moraes pages I:331-333. European Americana 699/82; Sabin 26002.

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