Voyage aux Moluques et à la Nouvelle Guinée, fait sur la galère la Tartare en 1774, 1775 & 1776, par ordre de la compagnie angloise. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1780. in-4 (254 x 194 mm) of 3 ff.n.ch., 470 pp., 1 f.n.ch. (approval), 1 large folding map and 28 engraved plates (numbered 1-27, 5bis, 13bis, 18bis; plates 20/21 and 25/26 are printed on 2 leaves). Marbled calf, triple cold fillet, spine ribbed, marbled edges (contemporary binding).
Chadenat, 571; Howgego, F60; see Hill, 623 (for the original 1779 edition).
First edition of the French translation of Thomas Forrest's (1729?-1802?) famous voyage to the Moluccas. Pages 443 to 458 contain the vocabulary of the Magindano language in the Philippines. A sailor and hydrographer, Forrest was employed by the English India Company and served under Admiral Pocock during the confrontations between the English and the French in Bengal.
Good copy, spine restored and rebacked.
Well complete with the rare portrait and errata page
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