First edition, illustrated with 18 copper-engraved plates in the first volume and 22 copper-engraved plates in the second.
Contemporary bindings in green half shagreen, spines with four raised bands, decorated with blind-ruled fillets and double gilt panels with ornamental cornerpieces; minor rubbing to the spines, boards in green paper-covered cardboard with blind-stamped frames and a few minor surface abrasions, heavily bumped corners. Endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré silk slightly soiled at margins as often, all edges gilt.
Foxing.
A compilation of selected excerpts from the most celebrated travel narratives.
Jacques-Bernard Hombron (1798–1852), a naval surgeon, was a close companion of Dumont d’Urville, with whom he circumnavigated the globe aboard the Astrolabe.