Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

323 c   (SOUTH AMERICA.) Frézier, Amédée-François. Relation du Voyage de la Mer du Sud aux Côtes du Chily et du Perou. 21 maps and plans, 16 plates. xiv, 298, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary mottled calf gilt, boards detached, moderate wear; internally clean for the most part; edges tinted red; early Ragley Hall armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Paris, 1716 [1,500/2,500] first edition . Frézier was a French engineer hired by the Spanish to build forts in Chile and Peru; his own government also requested him to chart the coast for later military use.“Much data is included about the native inhabitants, and the work also contains an interesting account of guano”—Hill 653. A few bars of Peruvian music are transcribed on pages 217 and 233. Borba de Moraes, page I:329; European Americana 716/55; Hill 653; Palau 94964; Sabin 25924.