Basil HALL

First French edition translated by Leroy, illustrated with a folding map.
Contemporary half green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes and 4 blind-tooled ornaments. Green bronze title and volume labels. Traces of rubbing. Narrow split to lower joint at head of volume I with a small lack at head. Some pale scattered foxing. Part of the map's margin absent without consequence. Good copy.
Appointed commander of the Conway, Captain Hall was charged by the British Crown with an exploratory voyage along the coasts of South America. He travelled to Chile via Cape Horn, to Peru, Panama, and finally to Mexico following the coastline. The captain possessed a very livel

HALL Basil, Captain
Voyage dans les états-Unis de l’Amérique du nord, et dans le haut et le bas Canada
Arthus Bertrand, Paris 1834, in-8 (12,5 x 21,5 cm), (4) xij, 331pp & (4) 351pp., 2 volumes, half Restoration calf
First edition in French with a folding map on thick paper.
Half light brown Restoration calf. Spine with flat bands decorated with two blindtools and a horizontal Romantic tool, thick blindruled and gilt fillets, roulette to foot. Speckled edges. Small spots of discoloration to spine. A very good, very fresh copy.
A British naval officer, Basil Hall was sent on several journeys of discovery, notably in South American and