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John. Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook

Lot 54. MARRA, John.

Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure.

£1000 - £1500

Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L’Aventure. 98433

Amsterdam & Paris, Pissot, 1777

Scarce. The French edition of Marras’ Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville.

First French edition. 8vo, xix, 546 pp., large folding map (short split to fold, lightly foxed), contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco label, lightly rubbed, an excellent copy.

[Beddie, 1272; Du Rietz, Bibliotheca Polynesia, 812.]