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Voyages
postes remontant au règne d'Auguste, suivi d'un recueil des ordonnances en vigueur
au moment de sa parution et orné d'un amusant bandeau figurant divers moyens de
communication : tours génoises, pigeon voyageur et chien porteurs de missive. Jacques Le
Quien de La Neufville (1647-1728), historien français, dédia la première édition au marquis
de Torcy, qui le fit nommer directeur des postes dans la Flandre française.
# Barbier IV-902; # Biogr. univ. XXIV-242/243.
VOYAGES & DÉCOUVERTES
(ONTDEKKINGS-) REIZEN
voir aussi
Manuscrit
(n° 449) &
Belgicana
(n° 36-38)
zie ook
Handschriften
(n° 449) &
Belgicana
(n° 36-38)
345 – (Amérique centrale) -
WAFER, Lionel.- A new voyage and description of
the Isthmus of America [...]. The second edition. To which are added, the Natural
history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society : and Davis's Expedition
to the Gold mines, in 1702. Illustrated with several copper-plates.
London, printed for James Knapton, 1704.
In-8° : [16]-283-[13] pp.; 4 folding pl. (slightly browned except a few pp. stronger, foxing, rare marginal stains).
Contemporary binding : sprinkled calf, gilt fillets on the boards, gilt decorated ribbed spine, red sprinkled
edges (upper joint partly split, small defects). In a blue cloth chemise and slipcase in half black morocco by J.
Desmonts & J. MacDonalds.
Est.
:
600/ 700 €
Second edition (1
st
ed. : 1699) of
Wafer's personal experiences in
Panama where he was stuck in the
Isthmus with four other privateers.
In this work describing his journey,
the country, Indians' costumes,
natural history, etc., Walfer appeals
to the British government to make
a settlement there because a free
passage by land from the Atlantic
to the South Sea might easily be
effected and would greatly benefit
the East India trade. It also contains
the first description of a cigar and
its ceremonial use. Illustrated with
1 map and 3 folding plates figuring Indians. With catalogues of books printed for James
Knapton (2 pp.).
# Sabin 100940; # Leclerc 1502 (1
st
ed.); # not in Chadenat (French ed.).
▲ Provenance : Reverend Dr. Peter Gunning, Farmborough (label); William H. Slingluff,
Norristown (id.).
¶
Seconde édition de ce voyage dans l'isthme de Panama illustré de 4 pl. dépliantes. Plein veau
moucheté de l'ép., sous chemise et étui modernes (ex. lég. bruni sauf qqs pp. plus fortement, rouss.).