[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.
12623
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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The distribution of Dumont d’Urville’s Astrolabe voyage
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A previously unrecorded state
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