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Jacques l' Hermite (1582-1624), Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse comte de (1741-1788), George Anson Anson Baron (1697-1762), Woodes Rogers (-1732), Jacob Roggeveen (1659-1729), Pagès Monsieur de (1740-1792), Le Gentil de La Barbinais (active 1714-1731), Francis Drake (approximately 1540-1596), William Dampier (1652-1715), James Cook (1728-1779), Philip Carteret (-1796), Jacques Le Maire (1585-1616), Vasco da Gama (1469-1524), Thomas Cavendish (1560-1592), Christopher Columbus, Samuel Wallis (1728-1795), Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651-1725), Jean François de Surville (1717-1770), George Shelvocke, Fernão de Magalhães (-1521), Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien Bougainville baron de (1781-1846), John Byron (1723-1786), Olivier van Noort (1558 or 1559-1627)Book Details
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Editor's name given as F. Bancarel by the BN catalogue record.
List of geographical places to subscribe appears on verso of half-title leaves of volumes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Colophon in volumes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 read: De l'Imprimerie de J.-L. Chanson, rue et maison des Mathurins, no 10.
Volumes 1-4 dated 1808; volumes 5-12 dated 1809.
Imprints in v. 3-12 read: Paris. Fr. Dufart père, libraire-éditeur.
Pagination: v. 1: [4], xvi, 609, [3] p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 470, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 592 p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 4: [4], 500 p., [5] leaves of plates; v. 5: 496 p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 6: 447, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 7: 469, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates; v. 8: 432 p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 9: 478 p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 10: 575, [1] p., [13] leaves of plates; v. 11: 504 p., [3] leaves of plates; v. 12: 324 p., [13] leaves of plates (6 folded)
Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi2 verso blank) a⁸ A-2P⁸ 2Q² (2Q2 versos blank); v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A⁸ B⁶ *B² C-2F⁸ 2G⁴; v. 3: pi² (pi2 verso blank) A-X⁸ (-X8) X² (-X2) Y-2O⁸; v. 4: pi² (pi2 verso blank) A-2H⁸ 1²; v. 5: A-2H⁸ (A2 verso blank); v. 6: A-2E⁸ (A2, 2E8 versos blank); v. 7: A-2F⁸ (A2, 2F8 versos blank) 2G⁴ (-2G4) (2G3 verso blank); v. 8: A-2D⁸ (2D8 missigned 2D) (A2 verso blank); v. 9: A-2G⁸ (-G8) (A2 verso blank); v. 10: A-2N⁸ (A2, 2N8 versos blank); v. 11: A-2H⁸ (A1 verso blank) 2I⁴; v. 12: A-V⁸ (A2 verso blank) X²
Errata: v. 1, p. [2], 4th count; v. 3, p. 592; v. 8, p. 432; v. 9, p. 432; v. 10, p. 575.
Includes general index.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v. 9 has p. 431-432 of v. 8 bound at end; v. 12 wanting half-title leaf.
John Carter Brown Library copy has 4 of the 6 folded maps in v. 12 hand-colored.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full treed calf.
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