Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs. Coup d'oeil autour du monde d'après les relations anciennes et modernes, et des documents recueillis sur les lieux (...). Ouvrage imité des Aventures des voyageurs par P. Blanchard

First edition, illustrated with 18 copper-engraved plates in the first volume and 22 copper-engraved plates in the second.

Contemporary bindings in green half shagreen, spines with four raised bands, decorated with blind-ruled fillets and double gilt panels with ornamental cornerpieces; minor rubbing to the spines, boards in green paper-covered cardboard with blind-stamped frames and a few minor surface abrasions, heavily bumped corners. Endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré silk slightly soiled at margins as often, all edges gilt.

Foxing.

A compilation of selected excerpts from the most celebrated travel narratives.

Jacques-Bernard Hombron (1798–1852), a naval surgeon, was a close companion of Dumont d’Urville, with whom he circumnavigated the globe aboard the Astrolabe.