Live auction - Lot 684
[Northern Europe]
[RETIRE] Relation d'un voyage dans la Mer du Nord, aux Côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland; des Orcades & de Norwege; fait en 1767 & 1768.
Amsterdam, Arkstee & Merkus, 1772
€ 500 / 600
Lot description
4to: [8]-220 pp., 13 (of 17 pls) (4 engr. ills missing; water stains throughout).
Cont. mottled calf, gilt decorated and ribbed spine (wormholes in spine, sl. rubbed).
Second edition of the travel account by the French explorer de Kerguelen-Trémarec (1734 - 1797): his expedition to protect cod fishing along the coast of Iceland (1st ed.: Paris, 1771). 13 maps and views: a reduced map of the North Sea, maps of the coast of Iceland and Norway and views of the islands. Ref. Sabin 37616.