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FALKLAND ISLANDS - ÎLES MALOUINES - PERNETTY, DOM (ANTOINE-JOSEPH)
Reference : 54375
(1770)
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.
