Amsterdam, Zacharie Châtelain, 1739, in-8vo, engr. front. + title in red and black + XXII + 1 ll. (table) + 504 p. + 1 folded map of ‘Asie’ / Title in red and black + 427 p. + 1 p. (table) + 3 folded maps ‘Afrique’, ‘Amérique méridionale’ and ‘Amérique septentrionale’ (California still as an island), some browning due to the paper quality, contemporary full calf, spines richly gilt, some worming and use to spines, esp. spine-ends with some loss, in all good, firm copy.
Sabin states (after Charlevoix), that in the second volume a large place is occupied with precise and exact information on the discoveries and the establishments by the French, the English, Dutch, Swedish and Danish. Sabin 8783. Image disp.
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