Voyage au Chili, au Pérou, et au Mexique

First French edition translated by Leroy, illustrated with a folding map.
Contemporary half green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes and 4 blind-tooled ornaments. Green bronze title and volume labels. Traces of rubbing. Narrow split to lower joint at head of volume I with a small lack at head. Some pale scattered foxing. Part of the map's margin absent without consequence. Good copy.
Appointed commander of the Conway, Captain Hall was charged by the British Crown with an exploratory voyage along the coasts of South America. He travelled to Chile via Cape Horn, to Peru, Panama, and finally to Mexico following the coastline. The captain possessed a very lively and engaging narrative sense which he put to the test in other voyages he undertook on his own account, notably in North America.