BELLIN, (JACQUES NICOLAS).

Description géographique des Debouquemens qui sont au nord de l'Isle de Saint Domingue avec des Cartes et des Plans des Isles qui forment ces Passages, et des Dangers qui s'y trouvent. Pour le Service des Vaisseaux du Roy.

Versailles, Dept. de la Marine, 1768/1773. 4to. Contemp. boards, later backed with calf. Spine with gilt lettering. Title-page with stamps on foot. Engraved title-page dated 1768. Printed title-page dated 1773. (8),152 pp., large engraved vignette, 34 engraved maps mostly folded, numb. I-XXXIV (XXXIV bound opposite p.111). A faint dampstain at upper part of 2 plates. A few scattered brownspots at end. Otherwise fine.

First edition. Collates as in Sabin, 4552 with the 2 title-pages, where Bellin's name only occurs on the engraved title.

Order-nr.: 54732