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Often praised work on South America

FREZIER, [Amédée François].
Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Perou, et du Bresil. Fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714.

Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc.

Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc.

Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc.

Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc.

Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc.



Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert, 1717. 2 vols. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, gilt inner dentelles, g.e. Engraved frontispiece, title in red & black to both vols., 27 engraved plates (19 folding, 8 full-page) showing maps, cityplans, plants and flowers, activities of the local people etc. XX, 1-294; (2), 297-600 pp.

Second French edition of a rare and often praised work by Amédée François Frezier. The first edition which was issued a year earlier in Paris was in one 4to. volume. An important work because of the exactness of the descriptions and maps. Frezier (1682-1773) left France in 1712 and returned there in 1714 with large amounts of information about his travels to Brazil, Peru and Chili. His contributions to knowledge of botany and mineralogy were considerable, his contributions to the geographical knowledge, however were of great importance, because he rectified a lot of topographical positions on the maps as they were known until that moment. Our Amsterdam-edition contains a "Mémoire touchant l'etablissement des P.P. Jesuits des les Indes d'Espagne", a relation of missionaries in Paraguay. This text is not by Frezier. It originally appeared at Amsterdam as a separate publication in 1712.
Beautiful set.
Sabin 25924; Chadenat 3221, 5372, 5981, 6605; Borba de Moraes I 328.

Related Subjects: America [South]  Brazil  Cartography  Circumnavigation 

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