Author: B [CARL FRIEDRICH BEHRENS]
Title: Histoire De l'Expedition De Trois Vaisseaux, envoyees par la Compagnie des Indes-Occidentales des Provinces-Unies, aux Terres Australes en MDCCXXI. Tome Premier.
Description: La Haye, 1739, First French Edition. Full-Leather, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book, volume one only of the two volume set. [12], 224 pages. Interesting old handwritten bibliographical annotation on this book on front endpaper. Written by Carl Friedrich Behrens, a soldier on Roggeveen's 1721-1722 voyage during which Easter Island and Samoa were discovered. This volume covers the discovery of Easter Island and other islands in the Pacific. Good.

Keywords: Terres Australes, Canary Islands, le Maire Strait, Chile, Juan Fernandez, Isle de Paques, Samoa, New Guinea, New Britain


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