Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 978
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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
COMPLETE WITH MAPS AND PLATES FREZIER, AMEDEE FRANCOIS. Relation du Voyage de la Mer du Sud aux Cotes du Chili du Perou, et du Bresil. 2 frontispieces and 37 maps and plates. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf with backstrip in 6 compartments, some worming to the covers, minor wear at corners; ink stamps to the titles, else quite clean with dark impressions of the maps and plates. Amsterdam, 1717
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An important work praised for the accuracy of the descriptions and maps, this edition published a year after the Paris first is noted for the additional anonymous "Memoire touchant l'etablissement des peres Jesuites dans les Indes d'Espagne" found at the end of the second volume. Alden 717/65; Palau 94964; Sabin 25924; Borba de Moraes I:281; Streit III:118; LeClerc 1738.<