Montant total (1 article articles) :
Destination de la commande :
moerenhout jaques antoine (1 résultats)
Passer aux résultats principaux de la recherche
Type d'article
- Tous les types d'articles
- Livres (1)
- Magazines & Périodiques
- Bandes dessinées
- Partitions de musique
- Art, Affiches et Gravures
- Photographies
- Cartes
-
Manuscrits &
Papiers anciens
Etat
- Tous
- Neuf
- Ancien ou d'occasion
Reliure
- Toutes
- Couverture rigide
- Couverture souple
Particularités
- Edition originale
- Signé
- Jaquette
- Avec images
- Sans impression à la demande
Pays
Evaluation du vendeur
-
Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan,
Date d'édition : 1837
Vendeur : Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Royaume-Uni
Membre d'association : ABA ILAB PBFA
Evaluation du vendeur :
Edition originale
Contenant des Documents Nouveaux sur la Géographie, Physique et Politique, La Langue, La Litterature, La Religion, Les Moers, Les Usages et Les Coutumes de Leurs Habitants' et des Considerations Générales sur Leur Commerce, Leur Histoire et Leur Gouvernment, depuis les temps le plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours. First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & 4 lithograph plates. 8vo. A very good copy in publisher's printed wrappers, some sporadic light foxing. xv, 576; vii, 520pp. Paris, Rare in the original wrappers, this notoriously uncommon book was written by a Belgian trader who settled in Tahiti in the late 1820s. The author made four principal voyages throughout the South Pacific, and his book is packed with interesting detail, arranged island by island. He had a particularly keen eye for the customs of the Polynesians and collected valuable historical information as he travelled. For instance there is a fascinating account of a conversation with Adams on Pitcairn, the last remaining Bounty mutineer, in 1829 three months before his death, together with a long description of the island and its inhabitants. He was also instrumental in the Pritchard affair which was a key event in the French annexation of Tahiti. Moerenhout was also a good artist and one of the portraits in the book is of John Adams. Some of his drawings were used to illustrate Tahiti in the Atlas Pittoresque for Dupetit-Thouar?s voyage of the Vénus. Hill, 1170; Forbes, 1065; Sabin, 49829.
