A Voyage to California to Observe the Transit of Venus
by Chappe d'Auteroche, [Jean]
Price: $2,000.00
- Bookseller: Dawson's Book Shop
- Seller Inventory #: CA37995
- Book condition: Very good: boards rubbed; scattered foxing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Place: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, London
- Date published: 1778
Book Description
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, London, 1778. Very good: boards rubbed; scattered foxing. 8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches, [10], 315 (i.e. 215), [2] pages, modern boards with vellum spine, Includes half-title, often lacking. With folding plan of Mexico City. First edition in English of "[a] thrilling account of a race against time to reach Lower California before the transit of Venus occurred." (Streeter, ref. 1772 Paris ed.). To this edition is added an account of a voyage to Newfoundland as well as a description of the town of Salleé, Morocco. Sabin 12004.
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