1802. · Paris
by Camus, Armond G.
Paris: Baudouin, Imprimeur de L'Institut National, 1802.. [4],iii,[1],401,[2]pp. Half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt leather labels. Scattered light foxing. Very good. An important early bibliographical study of new world exploration, and one of the foremost examinations of the De Bry and Thévenot collections of travel narratives, by Armond Gaston Camus (1740-1804), a noted French jurist and participant in the French Revolution. De Bry's Grand Voyages and Thévenot's collection of early North American travel narratives are among the most bibliographically complex works in the Americana canon. "An excellent analysis, not only of De Bry's, but of Thevenot's collections, with incidental notes on those of Hervagius, Ramusio, Hakluyt and Hulsius" - Harrisse. "An excellent specimen of bibliographical analysis, and indispensable to the 'De Bry' and 'Thévenot' collector" - Sabin. "Excellent mémoire qu'on consulte encore avec fruit" - LeClerc. SABIN 10328. LeCLERC 99. HARRISSE BAV, pp.xxiii-iv.
(Inventory #: WRCAM57462)