OUTHIER. Journal d'un voyage au Nord en 1736 1737. Paris, Pi - Lot 31

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OUTHIER. Journal d'un voyage au Nord en 1736 1737. Paris, Pi - Lot 31
OUTHIER. Journal d'un voyage au Nord en 1736 1737. Paris, Piget et Durand, 1744. 1 vol. in-4. 25.8 x 19 cm. Contemporary full calf, ornate ribbed spine, tan morocco title-piece. Title vignette, one header, sixteen folding plates including two maps and three plans, and five figures in the text. (The table lists 18 plates, but plates 9 and 15 were not produced). First edition of this account of Maupertuis' famous voyage to the Arctic Circle, which confirmed Newton's theory of the flattening of the earth at the poles. Outhier had embarked as astronomer on Maupertuis' expedition to northern Sweden, with the mission of measuring the arc of the meridian. An interesting work on the Lapps, which Quérard tells us is "far more curious and instructive than the one to which Maupertuis owed his greatest claim to fame, and the details it contains on the customs and religious habits of the Lapps make it an attractive read. Leaves uniformly foxed. Large margins. Corners dull.
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