- 3235
Outhier, Réginald (1694-1774).
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Description
- Journal d'un voyage au nord, en 1736 & 1737. Paris: Piget & Durand, 1744
4to (257 x 194mm.), [8], 238, [2]pp., printed on thick paper, illustration: engraved vignette on title-page, 16 engraved maps, plans and plates (most folding), one engraved head-piece, woodcut initials and head-pieces, a few woodcut diagrams in text, binding: contemporary blond calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, paper lightly browned
Catalogue Note
first edition. Outhier's journey to Lapland, to measure the length of a degree of latitude near the North Pole, was sponsored by the Académie royale des sciences.