Premier. [-Voyage aux Terres Australes, a la Nouvelle Hollande, &c. fait en
m. dc. xcix. Où l’on trouve la Description des Isles Canaries, des Isles de Mayo & de saint Jago, de la Baye de Tous les Saints, des
Forts & de la Ville de Bahia dans le Bresil, &c. Par Guillaume Dampier. Avec le Voyage de Lionel VVafer. Où l’on trouve la Description de l’Isthme de Darien dans l’Amerique, &c. Enrichi de Cartes
& Figures. Tome Quatrième.]
Paris,
1701-1705.
4 vol. 12mo. No copy was available for collation; the two titles as given above are taken from the
Rouen edition of
1723. The
Paris edition of
1701-1705 is not listed in the files of the National Union Catalogue, there is
no copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale nor in the British Museum
Catalogue.
Sabin 18382 begins with the Paris edition, 1701-’5 without locating a
copy,
which is the only reference to this edition in any bibliography
consulted.
Quérard has an edition of these dates but printed in Amsterdam, which
edition
is also in Boucher de la Richarderie.
The first three volumes contain the voyage of Dampier, and the fourth that of Lionel Wafer; all volumes are illustrated with
numerous plates and maps.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
8. His copy was bound by John March in calf, gilt, cost $3.00, on June 30, 1807.
William Dampier, 1652-1715, English buccaneer, circumnavigator and hydrographer, made his first voyage, to Newfoundland, at the age of sixteen.
He led a life full of adventure, travel, piracy and buccaneering; in 1703 he commanded the
St. George on its expedition to the south seas, accompanied by Alexander Selkirk in command of the
Cinque Ports and marooned at Juan Fernandez. In 1697 he published the first part of his
Voyage Round the World. Eventually the work was enlarged into three volumes, the travels of Lionel Wafer made a fourth volume, and later Dampier
added the accounts of the voyages of other navigators. Dampier’s works were translated into French and other languages.
Lionel Wafer, 1660?-1705?, English surgeon, buccaneer and traveller, first went to sea as the servant of the surgeon on a ship bound for
the East Indies. He met with Dampier at the Bastimentos on the Spanish Main, and in the course of his life met with him again
from time to time. In 1699 he published
A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the Author’s abode there. His work was published in other editions and was translated into the French
and Dutch languages.
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Voiage de la Condamine dans l’Amerique meridionale.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 127, no. 211, as above.
LA CONDAMINE,
Charles Marie de.
Relation abrégée d’un Voyage fait dans l’Interieur de l’Amérique Méridionale. Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud, jusqu’aux Côtes
du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la Riviere des Amazones; lûe à l’Assemblée publique de l’Académie des Sciences, le
28. Avril 1745. Par M. de la Condamine, de la même Académie. Avec une Carte du Maragnon, ou de la Riviere des Amazones; levée par le même . . .
A
Paris: chez la Veuve
Pissot,
m. dcc. xlv
. Avec Approbation & Privilége du Roi.--
Lettre a Madame * * * sur l’Emeute Populaire excitée en la Ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29. d’Août 1739. Contre les Académiciens
des Sciences, envoyés pour la mesure de la Terre . . .
m. dcc. xlvi
. [1745, 1746.]
F2546 .L148
First Edition. 8vo. 2 vol. 120 and 55 leaves; on sig. D
1 in the second part is the title for the
Pieces justificatives, with date M. D.C.C. XLV; and the following text in double columns; list of
Fautes a Corriger at the end of Vol. I, folded engraved map of the
Carte du Cours du Maragnon ou Amazones by G. N. Delahaye, folded engraved
Vuë d’une Place preparée pour une Course de Taureaux, en la Ville de Cuenca au Perou at the beginning of the second volume.
