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Interesting story of a shipwreck on the Coromandel coast in 1761

KEARNY, Monsieur DE.
Naufrage et retour en Europe de monsieur de Kearny (= half title). Lettre à M. le comte d'Estaing, lieutenant-Général des armées du Roi, contenant un détail du naufrage dans l'Inde, & du retour en Europe de M. de Kearny ... Capitaine dans le Régiment de Lally (p. 3).





(No place, 1762). 8vo. Contemporary speckled wrappers. 48 pp.

Rare interesting story of the shipwreck of the English ship Fattysalam on the Coromandel coast, the southeast coast of India, in 1761, including the story of the adventures of M. de Kearny during his journey back to Europe. The story is told in the form of a letter to the lieutenant-général of the French army in India, le Comte d'Estaing. De Kearny was a captain in the regiment of Lally serving in Pondichéry in India.
The account was published by Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon from Nantes probably in 1762, but perhaps, following a note by Deperthes in his 1787 edition of the letter, in 1763 in Paris by Duchesne. The letter was republished in the Histoire des naufrages, ou, recueil des relations les plus intéressantes ... par Jean L.H.S. Depertrhes, vol. 3 of the Supplement: Voyages imaginaires, songes ... (1787), nr. 10, pp. 302-37.

Fine copy.
Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, vol. 3 p.400 and 435 (nr. 12298): 'publiés par De Querlon, 1764 in 8vo. 48 pp.'; Polak 10370.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  India  Shipwrecks 

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