Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les années MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV par George Anson ... commandant en chef d'une escadre envoyée ... dans la Mer du Sud
A French translation of George Anson's account of his 1740-1744 voyage round the world, compiled from Richard Walter's narrative and published in 1749 in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert, bookseller to the king for artillery and engineering, for a military and naval readership. The pictures are small woodcut typographic ornaments, cartouches and head-pieces built from scrolls, foliage, cornucopias, masks and military trophies of arms, printed in black on the page.






































