Louis THIERCELIN
Journal d'un baleinier. Voyages en Océanie[Travels in Oceania: Memoirs of a Whaling Ship’s Doctor]
Hachette|Paris 1866|11.3 x 18.2 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, very scarce (see O'Reilly, Nouvelle Calédonie, 175. O'Reilly & Reitman 1246. Ferguson 16990-91. Hill p. 290. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, III, 2730. Martin, Hawai‘i, p. 48. Jenkins, Bibliography of Whaling, p. 150. Vaucaire p. 259).
Contemporary bindings in red half morocco-grained sheep over marbled boards, spines with four raised bands ruled in black, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved (except rear wrapper of vol. I), modern bindings.
Some foxing, mainly at the beginning of the first volume.
The chapter on New Caledonia spans pp. 257 to 350 of volume I; the one on Tahiti covers pp. 177 to 282 of volume II.
The
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