Narrations d'Omai, insulaire de la mer du sud, ami et compagnon de voyage du Capitaine Cook
By: Ouvrage traduit de l'O-T̋aitien, par M.K***, & publié par le Capitaine L.A.B.
Contributors: Sobolowski. former owner
Publisher: Chez le Boucher le jeune, libraire, rue Ganterie; Chez Buisson, libraire, rue Haute-Feuille
Published: 1790
Place of publication: A Rouen; A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Description and travel
Notes: Composé en français par l'abbé Baston. Cf. Quérard.

Attributed to the abbé Baston by Barbier.

Colophon in vol. 4 reads: A Rouen, de l'Imprimerie de veuve Laurent Dumesnil, rue neuve S. Lo. 1790.

"Explication des quelques mots a-taïtiens conservés dans la traduction": v. 2, p. [1-4], 3rd count, v. 3, p. [1-4], 3rd count, and v. 4, p. [1-4], 3rd count.

Pagination: v. 1: [10], 446, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [2], 492, [4] p.; v. 3: [2], 480, [4] p.; v. 4: [2], 462, [4] p.

Signatures: v. 1: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a⁴ A-2E⁸ (E3 missigned 3) (2E8 verso blank); v. 2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-2H⁸; v. 3: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-Z⁸ ²A-²G⁸ 2H²; v. 4: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-2F⁸ 2G² (-2G2)

Errata: v. 1: p. [1], 3rd count; v.2, p. 492; v. 3: p. 480; v. 4, p. 462.

Engraved head and tail pieces.

Sabin 57263.

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, 11281.

Cioranescu, A. 18 s., 10082.

Holmes, M. Captain James Cook, 74.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: v.1, p. 359-360 has lower right corner wanting with no loss of text.

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

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Ex biblioteca Sobolewskiana: book plates on front pastedowns.