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PERNETY, Antoine Joseph (1716-1801). The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a Settlement there: and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an Account of the Patagonians. London: T. Jefferys, 1771. 4° (271 x 207mm). 16 engraved maps, charts, views and plates, of which 7 folding. (Occasional light browning and staining, mostly confined to margins.) Late 19th-/early 20th-century speckled half calf over marbled-paper covered boards (hinges strengthened, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Matthew Maty (ink ownership inscription on title, slightly cropped by the binder, and marginal annotation in his hand).
FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of a primary source on the Falkland Islands by Louis de Bougainville's secretary. Bougainville made this voyage in 1764 at his own expense with the purpose of founding a colony, perhaps unaware that Englishman John Strong had made the first landing in 1690, and ignoring Spanish claims to the islands as being part of Patagonia. So began the Falklands controversy. The present work is a finer production than the French 8° editions of 1769 and 1760, and includes new charts and plans. Matthew Maty (1718-1776) was appointed one of the three original under-librarians (keepers) of the British Museum, in charge of George II's Royal Library and Sir Hans Sloane's printed books; he is probably the epistolary recipient of Coyer's satire of Patagonian giants (see lot 78). Hill 1328; Sabin 6870 and 60997 (note).
FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of a primary source on the Falkland Islands by Louis de Bougainville's secretary. Bougainville made this voyage in 1764 at his own expense with the purpose of founding a colony, perhaps unaware that Englishman John Strong had made the first landing in 1690, and ignoring Spanish claims to the islands as being part of Patagonia. So began the Falklands controversy. The present work is a finer production than the French 8° editions of 1769 and 1760, and includes new charts and plans. Matthew Maty (1718-1776) was appointed one of the three original under-librarians (keepers) of the British Museum, in charge of George II's Royal Library and Sir Hans Sloane's printed books; he is probably the epistolary recipient of Coyer's satire of Patagonian giants (see lot 78). Hill 1328; Sabin 6870 and 60997 (note).
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