FALKLAND ISLANDS - ÎLES MALOUINES - PERNETTY, DOM (ANTOINE-JOSEPH)

Histoire d'un Voyage aux Isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; avec des Observations sur le Detroit de Magellan, et sur les Patagons. Nouvelle édition. Refodue & augmentée d'un Discours Préliminaire, de Remarques sur l'Histoire Naturelle, &c. 2 Vols.

Paris, Saillant & Nyon, Delalain, 1770. 8vo. 2 contemp. full mottled calf. raised bands, richly gilt spines. Light wear to top of spines. Marbled edges. Stamp on title-pages. Front free endpaper in volume one, gone. IV,385;(2),334,(2) pp. and 18 folded engraved plates, maps and plans. Some scattered brownspots, mostly on the first few leaves in both volumes.

Second augmented edition. Pernety took part in the 1763-64 expedition under Louis Antoine de Bougainville that established the Port Saint Louis settlement in the Falkland Islands, and published a two-volume account of his nature exploration of the Falklands and the Brazilian island of Santa Catarina. In particular, he gave the first description of the Falklands stone runs phenomenon.

Order-nr.: 54375