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All CollectionsRare first edition (cf. Borba de Moraes II, 753: "famous book of navigational bearings". Rodrigues 2144.)
Minor marginal foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a clean and appealing copy.
Contemporary-style binding in quarter tree calf with corners, smooth spine, blind-ruled panels on marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Modern binding.
Baron Roussin (1781–1854) explored the coasts of Brazil in 1819–1820, during which he charted and described the Abrolhos archipelago—later made famous by Darwin’s observations aboard HMS Beagle (1832).
Manuscript ownership inscription: Guillotin.