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First edition. - 'This famous journey was made to the mouth of the Coppermine River, largely overland and with the aid of canoes. The coast of the mouth was surveyed. It is one of the most terrible journeys on record, many of the party dying from cold, hunger, or murder. The distance traveled was some 5.500 miles, and Franklin's narrative at once became a classic of travel literature. The plates were engraved by Finden, from drawings by Lieuts. Hood and Back. The natural history appendices are important' (Hill 635). - A fine copy. Abbey, Travel, 635; Sabin 25624; Chavanne 4268; Arctic Bibl. 5194; Howgego II, pp.234-238. 62 FREZIER, (Amédée François). Reis-beschryving door de Zuid-Zee, langs de kusten van Chili, Peru en Brazil, opgestelt op eene reistocht gedaan in de jaren 1712, 1713, en 1714. Nevens eene beschryvinge van de regeringe der Yncas, koningen van Peru, en hun ryk, zo als het was voor den komst der Spanjaarden aldaar. Het eene uit het Fransch vertaalt, en het andere opgemaakt uit verscheide schryveren, door Isaak Verburg. Amsterdam, R. en G. Wetstein, 1718. 4to. Contemporary calf, central gilt ornament within gilt fillets and gilt corner decorations to sides, gilt inner dentelles, spine richly gilt in compartments, a.e.g. With title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 14 engraved plates (2 folding) and 23 engraved maps and plans (17 folding). (16),406,(9) pp. € 2.250,00 First and only Dutch edition. - An interesting account of the voyage from France, Madeira and the Cape Verde Islands, Santa Catarina Islands, off the coast of Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, through the Straits of Le Maire around Cape Horn and continuing along the coast of South America as far as Lima, describing the chief towns and cities. During his return from Lima, Frézier took the trouble to correct the contemporary charts of the southernmost tip of South America, discovering a new channel in Tierra del Fuego and suppressing many of the imaginary lands previously shown on the maps. His survey also included the Falkland Islands which for the first time were identified as being the same as 'Sebald's Islands'. The return voyage called at Bahia, the Azores and Gibraltar' (Howgego p.399). The observant Frézier brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano. Frézier introduced the ancestor of the modern strawberry to France from Chile (Hill p.231). - (First blank lvs waterstained; some marginal wormholes in first lvs; last lvs waterstained). Tiele 361; Cat. NHSM I, p.280; Borba de Moraes I, p.329; Sabin 25927; Hill 653- 654; European-Americana 718/65. – See illustration.
Item 62 Item 63 63 GILLISS, James Melville. U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the southern hemisphere, during the years 1849-'50-'51-'52. Vol.I-II: Chili, the Andes and the Pampas. Wash., A.O.P. Nicholson, 1855. 2 volumes. 4to. Original embossed cloth, with gilt illustration on frontcovers, rebacked (the original gilt spines partly laid down). With tinted lithographed frontispiece, large folding panoramic view of Santiago (29 x 175 cm) coloured by hand, coloured costume plate of an Araucanian chief, 3 plans, 3 coloured lithographs depicting Indian antiquities, 4 tinted lithographed views, 6 maps (4 folding), 11 wood-engravings, 15 brightly coloured lithographed plates depicting birds and 17 lithographed plates depicting reptiles, fishes etc. XIII,556; X,300 pp. € 975,00 First edition. - Congress financed an expedition to Chili and Argentina, led by James Melville Gilless and assisted by A. MacRae, S.L. Phelps and E.R. Smith. The expedition took back to Washington a large number of scientific observations on Chili's and Argentina's geography, climate, earthquakes, government, social condition, mineral and agricultural resources, commerce, etc. - Vol. III and VI are dealing with meteorological observations, vol. IV and V were never published. - Foxed and some marginal waterstaining in vol. I, otherwise a good copy. Sabin 27419; Palau 102244; Leclerc 1957. – See illustration.
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