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[SEGALEN] COOK (James) (1728-1779) & KING (James) (1750-1784)
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[SEGALEN] COOK (James) (1728-1779) & KING (James) (1750-1784)
Third voyage [...], or Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785.
Text : 4 volumes in 2 in-4 (206 x 270 mm), (4)-cxxxii-437-(3) pp., (4)-422 pp. | (4)-488 pp., (4)-552-(2) pp. and 1 folding table. Atlas: one volume in-4 (235 x 305 mm), handwritten title f. by Dr. Corre (detached), (2) ff. of list of maps and plates (usually included in volume I), frontispiece "Death of Cook" and 83 plates out of 87 mounted on tabs (missing plates 14, 16, 41 and 62 | plate I " Carte générale des découvertes " flying) + 2 maps from another work (" Isle des Ascarides dans la Mer du Sud " and " Côte découverte en 1788 par le Lieutenant Shortland dans la Mer du Sud ") + a map and plates I-XIII from Dixon's Voyage autour du Monde (Paris, Maradan, 1789) + title, list of plates and 27 plates numbered I-XXVIII (missing plate XV) from the work Collection de cartes géographiques, vues marines, plans et portraits, relatifs aux voyages du capitaine J. Meares (Paris, Buisson, year III [1795]) (Edges of the atlas plates foxed, worm gallery in the inner margin of the first 20 plates, small wetness in the inner margin of plates 20-27). Autograph bookplate of Dr. A. Corre on the first endpaper of each volume, including the atlas.
Contemporary hardback, spine ribbed, tan basane title and greeves, leaves untrimmed. Modern half blue morocco slipcases, spine boards, gilt title. (Boards very worn, edges dusty| flyleaves formerly reinforced in the margins with paper strips.)
First edition of the French translation by Jean-Nicolas Démeunier.
It is illustrated with 88 plates - this copy contains only 84. The original English edition, the first part of which was written directly by Cook and the second by Captain James King, had appeared in London a year earlier.
Copy of Victor Segalen, with an autograph ex-dono signed by Dr Armand Corre:
"Cordially offered to Dr. Segalen in appreciation of the pleasure his book Les Immémoriaux has caused me. Brest, September 5, 1907.
Dr. Corre (1841-1908) was himself a naval doctor and traveler: his duties took him to Senegal, the West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar and Indochina. He settled in Brest where he became professor of medicine at the naval school and then municipal archivist. It was in this city that he met Segalen, with whom he developed an intellectual friendship, to the point of bequeathing to him at his death part of his important library. Segalen read Cook's works carefully while he was immersed in the writing of Les Immémoriaux, drawing from them practical information on Tahitian civilization (the number of passengers on the large pirogues) and elements of inspiration for possible characters: "I have two chapters finished. I think I have made a good discovery: to outline, among my 'foreign' elements, a Protestant missionary more cultivated than the others, for example a naturalist imbued with the philosophy of the 18th century (Bayle, Buffon, Diderot) as was Forster in Cook's expedition, and whose mouth would serve as my spokesman" (letter to Émile Mignard, Papeete, 10-20 February 1904).
REFERENCES
A. Joly-Segalen, "Un historien brestois : le docteur Corre", Les Cahiers de l'Iroise, vol. 13-14, 1966, p. 125.
Third voyage [...], or Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785.
Text : 4 volumes in 2 in-4 (206 x 270 mm), (4)-cxxxii-437-(3) pp., (4)-422 pp. | (4)-488 pp., (4)-552-(2) pp. and 1 folding table. Atlas: one volume in-4 (235 x 305 mm), handwritten title f. by Dr. Corre (detached), (2) ff. of list of maps and plates (usually included in volume I), frontispiece "Death of Cook" and 83 plates out of 87 mounted on tabs (missing plates 14, 16, 41 and 62 | plate I " Carte générale des découvertes " flying) + 2 maps from another work (" Isle des Ascarides dans la Mer du Sud " and " Côte découverte en 1788 par le Lieutenant Shortland dans la Mer du Sud ") + a map and plates I-XIII from Dixon's Voyage autour du Monde (Paris, Maradan, 1789) + title, list of plates and 27 plates numbered I-XXVIII (missing plate XV) from the work Collection de cartes géographiques, vues marines, plans et portraits, relatifs aux voyages du capitaine J. Meares (Paris, Buisson, year III [1795]) (Edges of the atlas plates foxed, worm gallery in the inner margin of the first 20 plates, small wetness in the inner margin of plates 20-27). Autograph bookplate of Dr. A. Corre on the first endpaper of each volume, including the atlas.
Contemporary hardback, spine ribbed, tan basane title and greeves, leaves untrimmed. Modern half blue morocco slipcases, spine boards, gilt title. (Boards very worn, edges dusty| flyleaves formerly reinforced in the margins with paper strips.)
First edition of the French translation by Jean-Nicolas Démeunier.
It is illustrated with 88 plates - this copy contains only 84. The original English edition, the first part of which was written directly by Cook and the second by Captain James King, had appeared in London a year earlier.
Copy of Victor Segalen, with an autograph ex-dono signed by Dr Armand Corre:
"Cordially offered to Dr. Segalen in appreciation of the pleasure his book Les Immémoriaux has caused me. Brest, September 5, 1907.
Dr. Corre (1841-1908) was himself a naval doctor and traveler: his duties took him to Senegal, the West Indies, Mexico, Madagascar and Indochina. He settled in Brest where he became professor of medicine at the naval school and then municipal archivist. It was in this city that he met Segalen, with whom he developed an intellectual friendship, to the point of bequeathing to him at his death part of his important library. Segalen read Cook's works carefully while he was immersed in the writing of Les Immémoriaux, drawing from them practical information on Tahitian civilization (the number of passengers on the large pirogues) and elements of inspiration for possible characters: "I have two chapters finished. I think I have made a good discovery: to outline, among my 'foreign' elements, a Protestant missionary more cultivated than the others, for example a naturalist imbued with the philosophy of the 18th century (Bayle, Buffon, Diderot) as was Forster in Cook's expedition, and whose mouth would serve as my spokesman" (letter to Émile Mignard, Papeete, 10-20 February 1904).
REFERENCES
A. Joly-Segalen, "Un historien brestois : le docteur Corre", Les Cahiers de l'Iroise, vol. 13-14, 1966, p. 125.