Nouveau voyage autour du monde. Où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusieurs Côtes & Isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terre del Fuego, les Côtes Meridionales du Chili, du Perou, & du Mexique; l'Isle de Guam, Mindanao, & des autres Philippines; les Isles Orientales qui sont près de Cambodie, de la Chine, Formosa, Luçon, Celebes, &c. la Nouvelle Hollande, les Isles de Sumatra, de Nicobar, de sainte Helene, & la Cap de Bonne-Esperance. Où l'on traite des differens Terroirs de tous ces Pays, de leurs Ports, des Plantes, des Fruits, & des Animaux qu'on y trouve : De leurs Habitans, de leurs Coûtumes, de leur Religion, de leur Gouvernement, de leur Négoce, &c

New edition illustrated with 66 plates and maps printed outside the text, most of them folding: 3 frontispieces, 39 plates and 24 maps, including a world map and charts of the various islands, some printed with coastal profiles, as well as views of ports (Manila, Bahia, Scio), of islands (the Canaries, Cape Verde), monuments, a shipwreck, battle scenes, indigenous peoples, flora (apricot, cocoa), and fauna (birds, fish), together with a curious depiction of the “hippopotamus or sea-horse” (vol. 3, p. 361).

Cf. Sabin, 18382. Borba de Moraes, I, 243-244. Leclerc (1867), 416. Cordier, Bibl. Indosinica, 1459-1460. Boucher de La Richarderie, I, 121-122. Hoefer, XII, 881-885.

Contemporary full blond calf, spines with five raised bands ruled in gilt and richly decorated gilt panels, red morocco lettering-pieces and morocco volume labels in bronze or brown, gilt rolls to the caps, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets to board edges.

Some restorations to the spines, which show slight differences in their tooling; a few scuffs to the boards and two softened corners.

Regarded as the greatest English navigator before Cook, William Dampier (1652–1715) twice circumnavigated the globe.

The first voyage took place from 1680 to 1691, when, having joined the buccaneers, he crossed the Isthmus of Darien (Panama), visited the Galápagos, then crossed the Pacific to the Philippines, the Moluccas and New Holland.

The second occurred from 1699 to 1701: after calling in Brazil, he visited New Holland, Timor and the northern coast of New Guinea, before discovering the islands of Poudou-Saboude, Providence, Matthias and Orageuse, and then charting the eastern coast of New Ireland. Being the first to pass through the Strait of Gamen—since known as Dampier Strait—between New Ireland and New Guinea, he recorded in this channel the islands of Végnion, du Volcan, de la Couronne, G. Rook, Longue-Rich and Brûlante.

Proceeding to Ceram (Moluccas), he reprovisioned at Batavia before returning to Europe. Dampier was thus the first Englishman to set foot, in 1688, on New Holland, which a century later would become Australia.

His account, which includes in particular an extensive description of the Southern Lands, together with a treatise on winds, tides and currents (considered at the time one of the best studies of the subject), as well as the narratives of the voyages of Captains Wood and Cowley, went through numerous editions in several languages.