[Rarebooks] fa: FALKLAND ISLANDS - A. J. Pernety: HISTOIRE D’UN VOYAGE AUX ISLES MALOUINES - 1770

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Antoine-Joseph Pernety: Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; avec des Observations sur le Detroit de Magellan, et sur les Patagons, par Dom Pernetty, abbe de l'abbaye de Burgel.... Nouvelle edition. Refondue & augmentee d'un discours preliminaire, de remarques sur l'histoire naturelle, &c. Paris: Saillant & Nyon [and] Delalain, 1770. Two volumes, 8vo (20.5 cm), in calf-backed marbled boards, marbled page edges; iv, 385, [1] pp.; [2], 334, [2] pp.; with 17 folding plates and maps (numbered I-VIII in vol. I, and VIII-XVI in vol. II). Field 1200; Sabin 60996.

Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716-1796) served as chaplain on Bougainville's 1763-64 expedition to claim the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) for France. Pernety's account of the expedition, first published in Berlin the year before, takes a particular interest in the natural history of the region. With additional sections on the Straits of Magellan, Patagonia, Montevideo, etc. The folding plates include maps and plans of the Straits of Magellan, the Falklands, Ile Ste. Catherine, the River Plata, Montevideo, Ascension Island, plus depictions of fishes, sea mammals, and the fabled "Patagonian Giants," etc.

Bindings with rubbing to the boards, wear to the edges, joints cracked but the boards are holding (one board a bit tenuous); the text leaves with intermittent browning and scattered spots, else clean and sound; one plate with some wear and browning to its exposed fore-edge, otherwise the plates are in very good condition, . Front paste-downs with an earlier owner's small monogram bookplate.