FRÉVILLE, ANNE FRANÇOIS JOACHIM DE (+) [ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE].

Berättelse om de nya uptäckter, som blifwit gjorde i Söderhafwet, åren 1767, 1768, 1769 och 1770, författad, enligt sednaste underrättelser, af hr. De Freville, med en bifogad charta af hr. Vaugondy. Ofwersatt ifrån fransyska. 2 vols.

Upsala, Johan Edman, 1776. 8vo. 2 volumes bound in one contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Ex-libris pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Occassional brownspotting throughout. (28), 308, (2); (2), 326, (6]) pp. + folded map.

Swedish translation of Fréville's 'Hhistorie des Nouvelles Découvertes...', first published in Paris in 1774, being an abdriged version of Alexander Dalrymple's 'Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean".
Regarding the map Kroepelien notes: "it was issued sometime after the publication of both volumes and is thus frequently missing."

Kroepelien 471
Beddie 721
Hill 411
Sabin 25913 (1774-edition)

Order-nr.: 57765