Lot 179: French Explorers in the Pacific

2 volumes. viii, 356; [6], 428 pp. With 25 maps and 2 plans. 8vo. Dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, jackets. First Edition.

Scholarly work on the early French explorers, using previously unpublished material from French national archives, reports from privateers, old logbooks, etc. Vol. I: The Eighteenth Century; Vol. II: The Nineteenth Century.

1965; 1969

Some insect wear and slight darkening to jacket spines, light edge wear, both price clipped, occasional foxing; bookseller's small label and previous owner's pencil signature in Vol. I; else a near fine set in very good jackets.

Place: [London]
Publisher: Oxford [University Press] at the Clarendon Press