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DUNMORE, JOHN The Expedition of the St Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770, from the Journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labe
London. The Hakluyt Society, 1981. First Edition. 8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; x, 310, frontis, 9 illus, mainly full-page, 4 maps, index, muster roll list of all officers and sailors. orig cloth, gilt vignette, gilt spine title lettering, dj (slight shelf wear), fine. ¶ This voyage was just after those of Bougainville and Wallis and just after Cook's first voyage. De Surville entered the Pacific via the Philippines to the Solomons and New Zealand and Peru. Labe was his successor when he died in Peru. The book contains a useful introduction on the voyage and the contributions made by it, especially to our understanding of pre-colonial Maori society, and Pacific geography.
Offered for US$ 32.00 by: Horizon Books - Book number: N732
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