CATALOGUE DE LIVRES - Camille Sourget

« The first seven volumes are a translation of the four volumes of Green’s Collection, published at
London in 1745-7, vol. VII. Vols. VIII-XV were compiled by the Abbé Prevost. Vol. XVI, Paris, 1761,
is a general index to the fifteen volumes. Vol. XVII, entitled “Suite de l’Histoire Générale des
Voyages”, Amsterdam, 1761, contains accounts of the Dutch East Indies, taken from the edition
printed at La Haye. Vols. XVIII, XIX and XX, entitled “Continuation de l’Histoire Générale des
Voyages”, and dated respectively Paris, 1768, 1770 and 1789, are a continuation of the work by MM.
Querlon and De Surgy. An extensive and important collection, including most of
the early American voyages and travels. A list of the contents of this and
the following editions is given in the catalogue of the Boston Public Library”.
Sabin, 65402.
BEL EXEMPLAIRE CONSERVÉ DANS SES RELIURES DE L’ÉPOQUE QUASIMENT
UNIFORMES BIEN QUE PUBLIE SUR 43 ANNEES.
First edition of this « véritable encyclopédie des voyages, base indispensable
de toute bibliothèque américaine », illustrated with a portrait and more than
590 engravings.
« An important and scarce collection which includes accounts of all the
principal early Australian voyages, as well as an account of the discovery of
Australia by the Dutch, early voyages to New Guinea and the Palau Islands,
and Roggeveen’s voyage to Terres Australes, African voyages including the
early Portuguese and English voyages to West Africa and the Cape of Good
Hope, with a general account of the Dutch at the Cape. Pacific voyages include
those of Magellan, Schouten, and Le Maire, Drake, Sarmiento, Cavendish,
Spilbergen, Narborough, Rogers Cowley, Frazier, and Anson. Particularly full
accounts are given of the Dutch and French voyages to the East Indies,
voyages to China, and the British East India Company’s voyages to India and
Ceylon”.
(Hill [2004] 1391).
The first edition of the twentieth volume, published at the very beginning of
the French Revolution, is difficult to find.
A fine copy preserved in its almost uniform contemporary bindings, even
though it took 43 years to publish it.
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