Paris, Born in La Rochelle, 1788-1789.
3 volumes in 3 octavo volumes of: I-xvi pp., 368 pp., 2 engravings; II/ (4) pp., 407 pp., (1) f., 2 engravings; III/ (4) pp., 454 pp., (6) pp., 3 engravings.
Old marbled half-calf, spine with raised bands adorned with gilt motifs.
192 x 120 mm.
Extremely rare original edition that neither Quérard, Barbier, nor Cohen knew. The latter only cites the reissue of 1790 adorned with 6 engravings by Marillier; The original, this one, is embellished with 7 engravings by Marillier.
Sabin 19619.
Deperthes was a French jurisconsult and prolific writer on a wide variety of subjects. This work contains 39 narrative accounts of celebrated shipwrecks and disasters at sea including, among others, Gerrit de Veer’s overwintering on Nova Zembla (1596-97), the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in the Bermudas in 1609, the adventures of Bontekoe in 1619, the loss of the Batavia off Western Australia in 1630, the shipwreck of Thomas James in Hudson’s Bay in 1631, and Alexander Selkirk marooned at Juan Fernandez in 1704 (the latter account provided the inspiration for Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.Hill)
“This Collection is the result of over twenty years of work, reading & research in various libraries, and particularly in one of the most comprehensive collections of books on Descriptions of distant lands, Travels & Maritime Voyages, owned by the Author.
The Accounts of Shipwrecks, Overwinterings & other disastrous Events that occurred during the Voyages undertaken for nearly two centuries, in the North for Whaling, or for the search for the passage to the East Indies will be classified separately, and will form the first Part of the Collection.
The Accounts of other misfortunate Events, which took place in various parts of the Globe, will fill the second Part of the Collection. This Part, more substantial than the first, will also have the advantage of offering the Reader more varied examples of human industry, less uniform, and also more sources of encouragement for the unfortunate. It is this second part that will comprise the second & third volumes.”
Of the utmost rarity.
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