Voyage fait ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751 dans L'Amérique Septentrionale, Pour Rectifier les Cartes des Côtes ....

Paris: Imp. Royale, 1753 . First Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Very good; rebacked.. 4to, [2], viii, [1] – 288, [10 – Contents & errata] pp. + 6 fldg. maps (eng. by Gobin); folding. plate; folding table.

A model of cartographic and physical science and the best of 18th European scientific voyaging to the western hemisphere. The expedition was mounted to rectify the pilot maps for the eastern coast of Canada and to undertake a variety of astronomical measurements. Chabert sailed from Brest to Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. Initial surveys (truncated) were carried out there and then at neighboring islands and the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Chabert's cartographic work was held up as a model for others to emulate by the French Academy. As if to underscore his celebrity he was also the author of a noted work on chronometers and the longitude. The maps drawn up and printed here for the first time were later incorporated into Jeffery's North American Pilot issued in London in 1775. Sabin # 11723; Tooley, America, p. 194; TPL # 222; Lande # 114. (Inventory #: 4668)