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A voyage to California, to observe the transit of Venus.

by: Chappe d'Auteroche, abbé, 1728-1769

Publication date: 1778

Topics: Venus (Planet) -- Transit -- 1769, Natural history -- Mexico, Cod fisheries -- Newfoundland and Labrador, Chronometers, Salé (Morocco), Newfoundland and Labrador, Mexico -- Description and travel, Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel, Saint Pierre (Saint Pierre and Miquelon), Imprint 1778

Publisher: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, ...

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

[8], 315 [i.e. 215], [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 23 cm. (8vo)

Translation of the first part of: Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil / Chappe d'Auteroche. Paris : Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1772; and: Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1768 / M. de Cassini. Paris : Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1770

Half title: Voyages to California, Newfoundland, and Sallee

Signatures: pi⁴ B-O⁸ P⁴ (P4 verso blank)