[Instructions sur la Navigation des Indes Orientales et de la Chine] [bound with] Supplément au Neptune Oriental.
[Paris & Brest,
Chez Dezauche,
1775] and 1781.
Two volumes in one, 4to, (215 by 175mm), [2] (of [4]), lviii, 574, [14], xv, [1] pages, lacks title to first work, marginal dampstaining throughout with traces of mold at end of Supplément, contemporary half sheep, worn, bottom portion of spine painted black, cover corners damaged.
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notes:
First editions of a volume of sailing directions published to accompany the 1775 enlarged edition of the author's nautical atlas of Africa and Asia, Le Neptune Oriental, and a supplement containing additions and corrections.
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provenance:
Hong Kong – the ailing Qing dynasty leased to Great Britain, 1898
Plan of London showing troop dispositions
The borough of Wigan
“Very nobly furnished, and… richly bound and gilded” (John Evelyn)
Rare map published during the War of Jenkin’s Ear
The conquest of Mexico
The first scientific analysis of the American Southwest
Cuba and Havana 

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