Quatre voyages chez le Hottentots et chez les Cafres
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Type of record: Book
Title: Quatre voyages chez le Hottentots et chez les Cafres
Other titles: Narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots; Observations sur le thermometre, les vents et le temps
Classmark: Anglo-French 4 1790/PAT
Creator(s): Paterson, William (1755-1810)
Publisher: chez Didot l'aîne
Publication city: A Paris
Date(s): 1790
Language: French
Size and medium: [4],329 p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/261304
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991016784119705181
Description
Pages 145 and 273 numbered 14 and 237.
The contents of pp. 209-329 do not appear in the original English edition and comprise: Premiere lettre de M. Le Monnier, de l'Académie des Sciences, a M. de Laborde; Seconde lettre du même; Lettre troisieme du même (pp. 209-223). Relation du naufrage d'un vaisseau portugias sur le banc des Aiguilles, le 27 avril 1686 (pp. 224-297). Au lecteur (pp. 298-311). Moyens de déterminer les latitudes et les longitudes (pp. 312-329). This version omits the dedication to Sir Joseph Banks and the 18 plates which were included in the English edition.
"Observations sur le thermometre, les vents et le temps, faites pendant le second voyage au Cap de Bonne Espérance, depuis le 22 mai jusqu'au 18 novembre 1778" has individual part-title.
Additional description
After p. 324 pp. 323-4 and 299-300 are bound in a second time
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