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First edition of the French translation by Philippe Florent de Puisieux (see Chadenat 1412 and 6038; Brunet 27050; Polak 5580; and Sabin 3968 for the English edition).

The first volume retains its engraved frontispiece.

Contemporary full calf bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with double gilt panels and ornamental tooling, red morocco labels for title and volume number, gilt roll tooling on the caps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, partially faded gilt fillets on board edges, red edges.

Two scratches and two small losses to the upper covers of the first two volumes.

A handsome copy, attractively bound, from the library of Darest de Saconay, with his armorial bookplate pasted on the inside covers.

Travel work illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. It includes the Life and Discoveries of Columbus, the Discoveries of J. and S. Cabot, the Voyages of John Hawkins to the West Indies, the Discovery of Virginia, and the expeditions of Drake, Hawkins, and White around the world, in America, the South Sea Islands, the East Indies.