PAGÈS, Pierre Marie François, Vicomte de (1748-1793). Voyages autour du monde. Paris: Chez Moutard, 1782. The first edition of an important early account of the Southern polar regions. In addition to his circumnavigation, Pagès served on Kerguélen-Trémarec's unsuccessful voyage to the South Pole and traveled to Spitzbergen on a Dutch Whaler. Chavanne 11; Howes P-13; Sabin 58168; Spence 887. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 122mm). 10 folding engraved plates and maps (light worming in vol. 1, some offsetting on plates, pl. 9 repaired). Contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine with gilding, edges sprinkled (old repairs at extremities). Provenance : Charles Auguste de Caieu (fl. second half 19th-c.; lawyer and member of the Society of Antiquaries in Picardie; label) – Helen R. Kahn, Inc.
PAGÈS, Pierre Marie François, Vicomte de (1748-1793). Voyages autour du monde. Paris: Chez Moutard, 1782. The first edition of an important early account of the Southern polar regions. In addition to his circumnavigation, Pagès served on Kerguélen-Trémarec's unsuccessful voyage to the South Pole and traveled to Spitzbergen on a Dutch Whaler. Chavanne 11; Howes P-13; Sabin 58168; Spence 887. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 122mm). 10 folding engraved plates and maps (light worming in vol. 1, some offsetting on plates, pl. 9 repaired). Contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine with gilding, edges sprinkled (old repairs at extremities). Provenance : Charles Auguste de Caieu (fl. second half 19th-c.; lawyer and member of the Society of Antiquaries in Picardie; label) – Helen R. Kahn, Inc.
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