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This is antique book - "Voyage Pittoresque Dans les Deux Ameriques. Resume general de tous les voyages de Colomb, Las-Casas, Oviedo, Gomara, Garcilazo de la Vega, Acosta, Duterte, Labat, Stedman, La Condamine, Ulloa, Humboldt, Hamilton, Cochrane, Mawe, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, ma. De Neuwied, Spix et Martius, etc etc, par les redacteurs du Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde. Publie sous le Direction de M. Alcide d Orbigny. Accompagne de Cartes…" written by Alcide D'Orbigny.

Published in Paris, 1836.

Commissioned by the French's Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, in June 1826, Orbigny did not return from the expedition until March 1834. During these eight years he traveled through the entire continent, making extensive scientific studies under difficult and often dangerous conditions. At the time, much of the continent had been explored only slightly or not at all. Between 1834 and 1847 d'Orbigny published in ten volumes the results of his eight-year expedition to North and South America, which focus particularly on Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru. The material - which extended to zoology, geography, geology, paleontology, ethnography, and anthropology - constituted the most detailed description of a continent ever made.

Text in double column (in French). Frontis and 133 attractive full page engravings, most with double views, plus two large folding maps to rear, the one showing North America, the other South America by Dufour. 

Size is 8" by 11.25" 

Rebound in modern binding. Some foxing throughout and several plates separating from the binding, otherwise a good, clean example. 

The contents include: Introduction, departure from Bordeaux, to Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Columbia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Patagonia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, USA - Philadelphia & Washington, Canada - Montreal, Greenland, northern regions of America.


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