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Yves-Joseph, de KERGUELEN TREMAREC Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord, aux côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwège ; fait en 1767 & 1768

Yves-Joseph, de KERGUELEN TREMAREC

Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord, aux côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwège ; fait en 1767 & 1768

Imprimerie de Prault, Paris 1771, 10,5x16,5cm, broché.


"this work, with maps and plates, reveals the immense scientific qualities of our Breton captain" (Alain Boulaire)


First edition containing 18 full-page plates, some of them folding. Also illustrated with a title vignette and 2 headbands.
Some foxing, one section uncropped.
Copy in its rare original contemporary paper covers, with some tears to the margins.
A fine copy, as issued, of Kerguélen's account of his North Atlantic expedition where he became familiar with sailing in the cold seas, first in 1767 with the corvette La Folle, following French cod fishermen, then the following year with the corvette L'Hirondelle. In 1768, he brought back two polar bear cubs for King Louis XV's menagerie.
 

2 000 €

Réf : 85999

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