Ledoux et Tenré

New edition, without the folio atlas of 15 plates.
Contemporary half blonde sheep bindings. Smooth spine handsomely decorated with anchor and ship tools, rolls and ornaments. Red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels. Small lack at foot of volume I and at head of volume 4. Foot of volume 14 slightly rubbed.
Preface to L'Abrégé by Depping: "Around the year 1745, some men of letters in England formed the project of a complete collection of all travel accounts published in all the languages of Europe. Abbé Prévost, a writer advantageously known for the success of his novels, undertook to translate the work into French. He kept his word, the work spread throughout

New edition after the first published in 1781 by Deperthes in one volume, it is expanded in this edition of 2 volumes. 3 frontispieces and 3 figures by Gossec and engraved by de Lignon.
Half black sheep binding ca 1840. Spine with false raised bands decorated with compartments, roulettes and gilt fillets. Fine copy, particularly fresh.
The work contains accounts of 38 shipwrecks, notably the wreck of the Méduse in 1816, or of L'Alceste in the Gaspar strait in 1817. The first voyage related dating back to 1431, that of Pierre Quirini, on the coast of Norway.