OUTHIER, REGINALD. Journal d'un Voyage au Nord, en 1736. & 1737. 16 folding engraved plates and maps. [8], 238, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends worn; few light dampstains on opening leaves, clean tear in map facing page 98. Alfred

OUTHIER, REGINALD. Journal d'un Voyage au Nord, en 1736. & 1737. 16 folding engraved plates and maps. [8], 238, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends worn; few light dampstains on opening leaves, clean tear in map facing page 98. Alfred Bourgon bookplate. Paris: Piget & Durand, 1744 E500-750 FIRST EDITION of thisaccount of an expedition to Lapland sponsored by the Academie des Sciences to measure the length of a degree of latitude near the North Pole, in order to determine the shape of the earth. DSB X, 255-56.