Voyage du capitaine Maxwell
Subtitle: commandant l'Alceste, vaisseau de S.M.B. Sur la Mer Jaune, le long des côtes de la Corée, et dans les îles de Liou-Tchiou, avec la relation de son naufrage dans le détroit de Gaspar, ayant à bord l'ambassade angloise, à son retour de la Chine
By: Par John Mac-Leod, chirurgien de l'équipage. Traduit de l'anglois par Charles-Auguste Def., aves cinq planches
Contributors: Defauconpret, Charles Auguste, 1797-1865; Schönborn Buchheim, Franz Philipp Joseph, 1768-1841. former owner
Publisher: Chez Gide fils, libraire, rue Saint-Marc-Feydeau, no. 20
Published: 1818
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Alceste (Ship); Description and travel; Catalogs, Booksellers'
Work titles: Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste
Notes: Verso of half-title page reads: De l'Imprimerie d'Ange Clo, rue Saint-Jacques, no. 38.

Translation, by Charles Auguste Defauconpret, of: Narrative of a voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea, along the coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered islands, to the Island of Lewchew; with an account of her shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar, first printed London, 1817.

A second French edition was printed by Gide fils, in Paris in the same year.

A second English edition was printed by John Murray, in London in the same year.

Contains a description of Rio de Janeiro.

Signatures: pi² (pi2 verso blank) 1-22⁸ 23⁶

Bookseller's announcements: p. [1-5], 3rd count.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), II, p. 507.

John Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary calf with marbled boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Monsieur le comte de Schönborn Buchheim: armorial bookplate on front pastedown.