First Edition of this translation. 2 parts in 1, 82 and 36 leaves, separate title-pages, signatures and pagination, half-title
at the beginning; the last chapter is an essay on the language, with vocabularies.
Barbier I, 901.
Quérard III, 62.
Sabin 23737.
This edition not in Field.
Backer III, 535, I.
Gillow II, p. 225 (in the note).
John Carter Brown 3125.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in Paris on October 27, 1787, price
3. The copy entered in the undated manuscript catalogue is priced
3.15.
Father Thomas Falkner, 1707-1784, English Jesuit missionary, was originally a doctor and sailed in the slave ship
Assiento as a ship’s surgeon. At Buenos Aires he was taken ill, and was nursed back to health by the Jesuits. He then entered the
Society and spent thirty-five years as a Jesuit missionary in South America, at first in Paraguay, and later in Patagonia.
On the expulsion of the Jesuits from South America in 1768 he returned to England. The original English version of this work,
A Description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America, was compiled from Falkner’s papers by William Combe.
Marc-Théodore Bourrit, 1739-1819, Swiss naturalist and traveller, and the author of a number of books, was the translator of this work.
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Histoire des navigations aux terres australes.
2. v.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 258, as above.
[BROSSES,
Charles de.]
Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. Contenant ce que l’on sçait des moeurs & des productions des Contrées découvertes
jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement.
Tome Premier. [-Second.] . . .
A
Paris: Chez
Durand [de l’Imprimerie de
J. Chardon],
m. dcc. lvi
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. [1756.]
G160 .B87
First Edition. 2 vol. 4to. 247 and 257 leaves; the Approbation and Privilege on the last leaf, with the printer’s imprint at the
foot of the verso. The copy in the Library of Congress has in Volume I the inserted sheet Iii §, pages 437* to 450* between
Iii
2 and Iii
3, pages 436 and 437. It is without the maps of Robert de Vaugondy.
Barbier II, 759.
Quérard I, 526.
Sabin 8388.
Charles de Brosses, 1709-1777, was the first President of the Parliament of Bourgogne, and later the President of the Supreme Court. This
Histoire was written at the instance of Buffon, q.v. and of Delisle, the astronomer. It contains accounts of the voyages of Amerigo
Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Richard Hawkins, Olivier de Nort, William Dampier, George
Anson, and many others.
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Voiage autour du monde et aux terres australes de Dampier, et le voiage de Wafer.
4. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 127, no. 106, as above, but reading
Voyage.
1839 Catalogue, page 530, no. J. 120, Dampier, William: Nouveau Voyage autour du Monde, où l’on Décrit en particulier l’Isthme
de l’Amérique, plusieurs Côtes et Isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le Passage par la Terre del Fuego,
Mexique, &c. &c.; avec le Voyage de Mr. Wafer, où l’on trouve la Description de l’Isthme de l’Amérique, 4 v. 12mo; Paris,
1701-’5.
DAMPIER,
William.
Nouveau Voyage autour du Monde où l’on décrit en particulier l’Istme de l’Amerique, plusieurs Côtes & Isles des Indes Occidentales,
les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les Côtes Meridionales de Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique . . . Par
Guillaume Dampier. Enrichi de Cartes & Figures. Tome
