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VOYAGES AUTOUR DU MONDE, ET VERS LES DEUX POLES, PAR TERRE ET PAR MER, PENDANT LES ANNEES 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1773, 1774 & 1776 by Pages, Pierre Marie:
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Berne & Lausanne/Suisse. 1783.. Three volumes. viii,199; 166; 219pp. including two folding tables. Half title in third volume. Old plain boards, manuscript labels. All free endsheets lacking, else very fine. Second edition, after the first published in Paris in 1782. Pages began his trip around the world by landing in New Orleans in 1767, travelling up the Red River to Natchitoches, then to Nacogdoches and across Texas to San Antonio. Henry Wagner doubted the veracity of Pages' account, but Thomas Streeter later established its reliability. After his Texas sojourn, Pages went on to Mexico City, sailed across the Pacific to the Marianas and Manila, visited Batavia and southern India, then proceeded up the Persian Gulf and crossed to Jerusalem. In 1773-74, Pages accompanied Kerguelen-Tremarec on his expedition to search for a southern continent in the Indian Ocean, and several years later accompanied a Dutch whaler to Sptizbergen, making his book one of both Arctic and Antarctic interest. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 165 (ref). CLARK I:285. STREETER TEXAS 1027 (ref). HOWES P13. SABIN 58171. HILL 1285 (ref).
boards : Common term for the covers of a hardbound book.
half title : The leaf which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at times, the author's name and/or other information may appear.
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