Lot no. 522
[DESMARQUETS (J. A. S.)]. Mémoires chronologiques pour servir à l'histoire de Dieppe et à celle de la navigation françoise, avec un Recueil abrégé des privilèges de cette ville. Paris, Rouen et Dieppe, Desauges, Racine et Dubuc, 1785.
2 volumes in-12 blond half calf, spines decorated, title and tom. pages in red and blond marble (19th c. rel.).
Rare first edition.
"Written on authentic materials which no longer exist, this work contains interesting and little-known particularities on the geographical discoveries of the Dieppe navigators in the 15th and 16th centuries". Frère I, 349. Ex-libris JM.
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