[Rarebooks] fa: HISTOIRE MODERNE 1774 - SOUTH PACIFIC & POLYNESIAN VOCABULARY + Australia, Patagonia, Greenland & Iceland, Northwest Passage, &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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[Abbe de Marsy and Adrien Richer:] Histoire Moderne des Chinois, des Japonnois, des Indiens, des Persans, des Turcs, des Russiens, des Americains &c. Tome Vingt-cinquieme [and] Vingt-sixieme. Paris: Sailllant & Nyon et Veuve Desaint, 1774. First edition. Two volumes; small 8vo (17 cm) in full period mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt; [4], 462 pp.; viii, 478 pp.

Two consecutive volumes (vols. 25, 26), complete in themselves, dealing primarily with South America, the South Pacific, Greenland and Iceland. Sections include: TERRE MAGELLANIQUE: Isles Malouines (Malvinas or Falkland Islands); Terre de Feu (Tierra del Fuego); Isle de Juan Fernandes; Isles Gallapagos; etc.; TERRES AUSTRALES: Australasie; La Nouvelle Hollande; La Polynesie (Polynesia); Isles de Salomon (Solomons); Isles decouvertes par M. de Bougainville; Isle Taiti, ou selon les Anglois, Otahiti (Tahiti); Isles qui se trouvent aux environs de Taiti; etc., as well as "vocabulaires" of words and phrases translated from the barbarous tongues ("tires des langues barbares") of Tahiti, New Guinea, the Solomons, Cocos Islands, etc.; Extrait d'une Dissertation sur l'impossibilite d'un Passage de la Mer du Nord ou Ocean Atlantique dans la Mer du Sud ou Pacifique, par les Mers septentrionales (re. the Northwest Passage); TERRES POLAIRES: lengthy articles on Le Groenland (Greenland) and L'Islande (Iceland), as well as accounts of Le Spitzberg, Isle Mayen, La Nouvelle Zemble.

Occasional light toning to the leaves, a few scattered small spots; each volume with an ink stamp to the title-page and one leaf of text (no other library marks); otherwise very clean and fresh, firmly and handsomely bound. Front paste-down with small book label of "Sem. Maj. Valentin."