Author: CROZET, JULIEN MARIE
Title: Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud, Commence sous les ordres de M. Marion [.] On a Joint a ce Voyage Un Extrait de celui de M. de Surville dans les memes Parages.
Description: Paris, Chez Barrois. 1783, First Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, viii, 290, [1] pages. Contemporary binding, old library stamp on front paste down but no other markings, lacks front flyleaf and half-title page. No plates or maps. Old marginal paper repairs up to page 8, a few letters missing on margins of pages iii-vi. First publication of the fateful voyage of Marion du Fresne to New Zealand in 1772. An account of the voyage of de Surville to New Zealand in 1769 is also published here for the first time. Prior to the visit in New Zealand the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean were discovered and the expedition stopped at Tasmania. Good.

Keywords: Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Bay of Islands, Crozet


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