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FROGER, François

Relation d'un Voyage. Fait en 1695, 1696 & 1697 aux Cotes d'Afrique, Detroit de Magellan, Brezil, Cayenne, & Isles Antilles, ...
Paris
Nicolas le Gras
1700
€280 - €360

8°, front., [12], 220 pp, 28 partly folded copper plates, cont. full calf, gilt back (some restauration)

Third French edition. Sabin 26002. Ownership note by de Wilcour (?). - Travelogue of the three-year voyage on the English Falcon. Francois Froger, who had had a fascination with traveling from an early age, was only 19 years old when the Falcon left La Rochelle in France. They first sailed along the west coast of Africa before crossing the Atlantic to South America. - The magnificent copper plates show the flora and fauna of the areas traveled, as well as numerous maps and illustrations of the indigenous population