E. Dampier Sold at Auction Prices

Dampier, W. and Wafers, L. Nouveau voyage autour du monde. Où l'on décrit e

Dampier, W. and Wafers, L. Nouveau voyage autour du monde. Où l'on décrit en particulier l'Isthme de l'Amerique, plusiers Côtes & Isles des Indes Occidentales, les Isles du Cap Verd, le passage par la Terra 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, & le Cap de Bonne-Esperance./ Suite du Voyage (...)/ Supplement du Voyage (...)/ Voyage aux Terres des Australes, A la Nouvelle Hollande (...). Rouen, J.B. Machuel le Jeune, 1715, 4 vols., 3 diff. engr. frontisp., 43 plates/ maps, contemp. unif. calf w. gilt spine and 2 mor. letterpieces. - Occas. sl. waterstained in upper blank margin. All vols. spine-ends chipped; binding worn. Contents very fine. = This Rouen edition not recorded in the usual reference works (2 other eds.: Rouen, E. Herault, 1715 (5 vols.) and Rouen, J.B. Machuel, 1723 (5 vols.)). Our edition in 4 vols. (cf. earlier editions) appears to be complete. Cf. Sabin 18383; Borba de Moraes p.242; Henze II, p.10; Howgego D7 and Hill 417 (listing the ed. London 1697). "In the account of his first voyage to New Holland, Dampier drew a graphic and most repulsive image of the aborigine: The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and skin Garments. Sheep, Poultry and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, etc. as the Hodmadods have: and setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes." (Smith, p.169). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIX.