Australie. Voyage autour du Monde

  • Two folding maps and two mounted albumen photographs. x, 363pp. 8vo
  • Paris: Henri Plon, 1869
By Beauvoir, Le Comte de
Paris: Henri Plon, 1869. First edition. Two folding maps and two mounted albumen photographs. x, 363pp. 8vo. Contemporary green calf backed marbled boards. Very Good. First edition. Two folding maps and two mounted albumen photographs. x, 363pp. 8vo. In 1866, at the age of 19, Ludovic de Beauvoir undertook with his childhood friend, the Duke of Penthièvre, a trip around the world, which inspired three works: this one devoted to Australia, the second on Java, Siam and Canton and the third, published in 1872, devoted to Japan and the United States. Ferguson 6839

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