H. Lemaire - Beautés de l'histoire des voyages les plus fameux autour du monde et dans les deux hémisphères - 1821

Fascinating original and illustrated collection of this anthology designed to condense and magnify the stories of the great explorers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Volume I opens with major circumnavigations and maritime expeditions, recounting the voyages of Magellan, Drake, Cook, and Bougainville, emphasizing maritime adventures, geographic discoveries, and the first contacts with distant peoples.

Volume II expands the scope to explorations across both hemispheres, incorporating narratives about the Americas, Africa, Asia, and polar regions, by selecting the most picturesque and instructive episodes.

Lemaire adopts an anthological and pedagogical approach: he extracts striking anecdotes, landscape descriptions, and portraits of encountered peoples from travel journals, in order to compose a vivid and edifying fresco.

H. Lemaire - Beauties of the history of the most famous voyages around the world and in both hemispheres - 1821 - Volumes I and II - Alexis Aymery
371, 369 pages.

Good condition of the bindings, books in their original brown half-leather from the period, marbled boards, wear from use, top cover of volume II missing, cracks at the upper ends of the corners of the second volume, marbled edges, smooth ornated spines, gilded titles and volume numbers.

Good interior condition, browning, works adorned with 12 beautiful engravings outside the text, including a frontispiece.

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