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LE ROY, PIERRE-LOUIS. Relation des Avantures arrivées a Quatre Matelots Russes, Jettés par une tempête près de l'Isle deserte d'Ost-Spitzbergen. 70, [2] pages, including final blank * Kort, et Naauwkeurig Relaas van het Gebeurde aan vier Russische Zeelieden, Welke by ongeluk geraakt zyn op het Onbewoond Eiland Oost-Spitzbergen . . . Tweede Druk. [4], 74 pages. Together, 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary decorated paper and paste-paper wrappers, the second binding worn, lacking backstrip; minor worming through opening leaves of first work not impairing legibility, marginal soiling and dampstaining on opening leaves of the second. Np, 1766; Amsterdam: Petrus Conradi, 1768
French and Dutch translations of a work first published in 1760 in German on the experiences of 4 Russian sailors marooned for over 6 years on an island in the Svalbard archipelago. Huntress 84C (1774 English version).
