PHIPPS, CONSTANTIN-JEAN (CONSTANTINE JOHN). - THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SPITZBERGEN.

Voyage au Pole Boréal, fait en 1773, par Ordre du Roi D'Angleterre. Traduit de L'Anglois.

Paris, Saillant & Nyon (et) Pissot, 1775.

4to. Contemp. full calf. Raised bands, richly gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. XII,260 (incl. 2 folded tables),(4) pp., 3 folded engraved maps and 9 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, 3 plates with a faint dampstain.

First French edition. "An importent addition to nautical science which does honor to its author. Besides of a journal of the voyage, it contains a descriptive catalogue of the natural productions of Spitzbergen." (Sabin). Phipps here mapped the northern part of Spitzbergen.
Sabin,62574.

Order-nr.: 53681