Lot 745
  • 745

Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

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Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle Isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829 (trans. Carol Botta). Turin: Tipografico Fontana, 1841



2 volumes, in 4s (7 1/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 183 x 124 mm). Half-titles, 4 wood-engraved plates; scattered foxing. Italian half maroon calf over marbled boards, smooth spines elaborately gilt, plain endpapers, blue marbled edges; extremities rubbed.

Literature

Cowan, p. 186; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 1260; Howes D547; Zamorano 80 31 note

Catalogue Note

Second edition, first in Italian, translated from the French first edition of 1834–35. This edition is the first to include the observations on California and Hawaii made by the ship's doctor, Paolo Emilio Botta, including a brief Italian-Hawaiian vocabulary.