Voyage a la mer du Sud
By: fait par quelques officiers commandants le vaisseau le Wager: pour servir de suite au Voyage de Georges Ansons. Traduit de l'anglois
Contributors: Cummins, John (Ship's carpenter); Campbell, Alexander (Midshipman of the Wager); Laugier, Marc-Antonine, 1711-1769; Rivers, abbé; Université catholique
Publisher: Chez les freres Duplain, libraires, grand rue Merciere
Published: 1756
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Description and travel; Wager (Ship)
Other titles: Affecting narrative of the unfortunate voyage ... of His Majesty's ship Wager. French.
Notes: Although called a Supplement to Anson's voyage, this account deals only with the Wager and its crew.

"Composed, rather than translated, from the journals, of Messrs. Bulkely and Cummins, London, 1743; of Alexander Campbell, Dublin, 1747; anonymous, London, 1751; and of Isaac Morris, Dublin, 1752."--Cf. Rich and Barbier.

"L'abbé Laugier ... a été le reviseur de la traduction, par l'abbé Rivers, du Voyage à la mer du Sud (1756)."--Cf. Quérard.

Also issued in quarto edition with identical imprint in 1756.

Signatures: pi² ã¹² ẽ⁸ A-T¹² (T12 blank)

Engraved ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Includes index.

Sabin 1639.

Sabin 100803.

Rich, O.  Bib. Americana nova, 120.

Quérard 612.

Cioranescu, A.  18. s., 37478.

Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, 19222.