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Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV par George Anson ... commandant en chef d'une escadre envoyée ... dans la Mer du Sud

Anson, George, Walter, Richard · 1749 · chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du roy pour l'artillerie & le genie · 39 pictures

A French translation of George Anson's account of his 1740-1744 voyage round the world, compiled from Richard Walter's narrative and published in 1749 in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller to the king for artillery and engineering, for a military and naval readership. The pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments, cartouches and head-pieces built from scrolls, foliage, cornucopias, masks and military trophies of arms, printed in black on the page.

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