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HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES PAR DUMONT D'URVILLE, D'ORBIGNY, EYRIES ET A. JACOBS 4 VOLUME SET
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| By: |
Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny, Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries |
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Multiple copy pack |
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£160.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108039138 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108039130 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
24 November, 2011 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration |
| Pages: |
2662 |
| Description: |
A mid-nineteenth-century, illustrated collection produced in Paris to showcase the achievements of French explorers for a general readership. |
| Synopsis: |
This four-volume, illustrated collection, issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century, showcased the work of recent French explorers for a popular readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. It contains lightly fictionalised versions of accounts by three influential geographers and naturalists. Volumes 1 and 2, by the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), cover his first two voyages to the Pacific; originally published in 1832, the printings reissued here date from 1863 and 1859. Volume 3 contains an account by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-57) of his travels in South America in 1826-33, supplemented by material on North America and Iceland. It was first published in 1841; this posthumous 1859 printing was updated by Alfred Jacobs (1802-70). Volume 4 (1859), substantially updated by Jacobs, is based on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846), a founder member of the French Geographical Society. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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