BRUNET (P.). Voyage à l'Ile de France, dans... - Lot 230 - Kâ-Mondo

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BRUNET (P.). Voyage à l'Ile de France, dans l'Inde et en Angleterre ; suivi de mémoires sur les Indiens, sur les vents des mers de l'Inde, et d'une notice sur la vie du général Benoît Déboigne, commandant l'armée maratte sous Scindia. Paris, P. Mongie aîné, 1825. In-8, [2] f., IV-390 p., contemporary havana racine basane, smooth spine, red basane title-piece, gilt fleurons and fillets, gilt roulette bordering the boards, medallion in the centre of the upper board, marbled edges (stain at the foot of the upper board and wetness in the foot margins at the beginning of the volume, rubbing to the lower board, repair to the last f.; without the final f. of the bookseller's catalogue). First edition. Pierre Brunet, a navigating surgeon from Nantes (1770-1832), took part in the expedition to Saint-Domingue in 1792. After having served as a physician in Cape Town and New York, he left for Ile-de-France in 1803, where he was taken prisoner by the English and brought to Madras where he stayed for three years. He then collected precious information on local customs, geography and meteorology. He went back to sea, was again arrested and detained on an English pontoon, was released and returned to France around 1815, where he published his medical thesis on sleep and dreams. He died in Brest during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Provenance: Institution of Madame Pezet in Versailles (supra-libris). (Chadenat, 3149; Quérard, Fr. litt., I, 540; J. Roger, Les médecins bretons du XVIe au XXe siècle, P., 1900, p.158-160).
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