Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord, aux côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwège ; fait en 1767 & 1768
by KERGUELEN TREMAREC Yves-Joseph, de
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Paris: Imprimerie de Prault, 1771. Fine. Imprimerie de Prault, Paris 1771, 10,5x16,5cm, broché. - ""cet ouvrage enrichi de cartes et de planches permet de découvrir les immenses qualités scientifiques de notre capitaine breton"" (Alain Boulaire) Edition originale bien complète de ses 18 planches hors-texte, parfois dépliantes. L'ouvrage est également illustré d'une vignette de titre et de 2 bandeaux. Quelques rousseurs, un cahier débroché. Exemplaire présenté dans son rare brochage d'origine et recouvert d'une couverture d'attente comportant des manques marginaux. Bel exemplaire tel que paru de l'expédition de Kerguélen dans l'Atlantique nord où il devient familier avec la navigation dans les mers froides, d'abord en 1767 avec la corvette La Folle en suivant la pêche à la morue, puis l'année suivante avec la corvette L'Hirondelle. Il ramène en 1768 deux oursons blancs pour la ménagerie du roi Louis XV. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] ""this work, with maps and plates, reveals the immense scientific qualities of our Breton captain"" (Alain Boulaire) First edition containing 18 full-page plates, some of them folding. Also illustrated with a title vignette and 2 headbands. Some foxing, one section uncropped. Copy in its rare original contemporary paper covers, with some tears to the margins. A fine copy, as issued, of Kerguélen's account of his North Atlantic expedition where he became familiar with sailing in the cold seas, first in 1767 with the corvette La Folle, following French cod fishermen, then the following year with the corvette L'Hirondelle. In 1768, he brought back two polar bear cubs for King Louis XV's menagerie.
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- Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord, aux côtes d'Islande, du Groenland, de Ferro, de Schettland, des Orcades & de Norwège ; fait en 1767 & 1768
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- KERGUELEN TREMAREC Yves-Joseph, de
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- Imprimerie de Prault
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- 1771
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