[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated 1718 South America including one of the earliest depictions of a form of golf

[Charles Agvent]

FREZIER, M. REIS-BESCHRYVING DOOR DE ZUID-ZEE, LANGS DE KUSTEN VAN 
CHILI, PERU EN BRAZIL OPGESTELT OP EENE REISTOCHT GEDAAN IN DE JAREN 
1712, 1713, EN 1714. NEVENS EENE BESCHRYVINGE VAN DE REGERINGE DER 
YNCAS, KONINGEN VAN PERU. Amsterdam: R & G Wetstein, 1718. First Dutch 
Edition. Small quarto (6" x 7-5/8") bound in modern half green morocco 
leather and paper patterned boards with matching morocco corners and a 
heavily gilt-decorated spine with four raised bands and a gilt-lettered 
blue morocco label, top edge gilt; (16), 406, (9) pages. First published 
in French in 1716, this edition includes information about the Jesuit 
activities in Paraguay not published previously. Illustrated with 37 
maps, city plans, plates of natives, and natural history specimens, many 
folding, including Plate 9 which depicts the Chilean game of La Sueca 
and which is widely regarded as one of the earliest printed depictions 
of a form of golf. Pale marginal dampstain affecting some pages but 
generally very clean and bright, the binding Fine housed in a Very Good 
marbled paper slipcase.
Borba de Moraes p. 329; Hill, page 115 (1716 edition); Sabin 25927; 
Tiele 361. (#018449)        $2,500

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