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(CALIFORNIA.) Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean.
Voyage en Californie por l´obser-
vation du passage de Vénus sur le disque du solèil.
Folding plan, 3 plates, folding
table. [4], 170, [2] pages. 4to, modern calf in period style by Bayntun of Bath; minor repairs
to half-title and title pages and leaf I-1, minor dampstaining to last few leaves, edges tinted
red.
Paris: Jombet, 1772
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
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A joint French-Spanish expedition to Baja California to view the Transit of
Venus. The author contracted a fatal case of yellow fever two days after his observations.
Includes a large folding plan of Mexico City, likely by José Antonio Alzate (illustrated).
Cowan 1933, page 114; Hill 278; Howes C299 (“aa”); Palau 67059; Sabin 12003;
Streeter sale IV:2443 (“a thrilling account of a race against time”); Wagner, Spanish
Southwest 158.
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(CALIFORNIA.) Chappe d’Auteroche, Jean.
A voyage to California to observe
the Transit of Venus.
Folding plan of Mexico City. [8], 215 pages. 4to, modern
1
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4
calf;
half-title with partial separation along a fold, plan mounted on new stub and coming
detached; uncut; perforated library stamp on half-title, inked library stamps on title and
next page, Volkmann ex-libris tag on front pastedown.
London: Dilly, 1778
[600/900]
First edition in English of the above, with the addition of a voyage to Newfoundland. Cowan
1933, page 114; Hill 279; Howes C299 (“aa”); Sabin 12004; Wagner, Spanish Southwest
158a. Provenance: Sloan’s Daniel Volkmann sale, 16 February 2005, lot 36.
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