Lot n° 282
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GOBINEAU, Arthur de. - Lot 282
GOBINEAU, Arthur de.
Voyage à Terre-Neuve.
Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1861.
In-12, (2) ff. 309 pp., (1) f. Bradel modern blue half cloth, brown title page (spine faded, brown spots).
First edition.
In 1860, Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882), French diplomat, writer and politician, was sent on a six-month mission to Newfoundland to help delimit Franco-English cod fishing zones. In addition to Newfoundland, he visited Nova Scotia, Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and Cape Breton Island, a peregrination he recounts in this account published on his return.
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