Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,
envoyés par la Compagnie des Indes Occidentales des Provinces-Unies aux Terres Australes en MDCCXXI. Par monsieur de B***.
The Hague, 'aux depens de la Compagnie,' 1739
The first account of the expedition, the present work was published in German in 1737 by Carl Friedrich Behrens (1701-1750), a commander of marines on the voyage and the first European to set foot on Rapa Nui, named Easter Island by the Europeans as they arrived there on Easter Sunday 1722. The French translation is most often attributed to the author.
First French edition. 2 vols, small 8vo, [12], 224; [4], 254, [2] (blank)pp.; titles in red and black, half-titles, occasional woodcut ornament; small marginal water-stain in vol. II, neat repair to lower corner of vol. II, Q7; contemporary continental (? Dutch) calf, spines gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering-pieces, edges speckled red, marbled endpapers, ribbon page-markers; a little rubbed, some chipping to joints, to spine and lower board of vol. I, otherwise a very good copy.
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