L’Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous Les Peuples.: Océanie [History and Description of the Peoples of the World] Cinquième Partie du Monde. [Fifth Chapter of the World] Tome Troisième [Third Volume]

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635pp., re-bound with new spine, using original blue & brown covers, new front and end papers, 71 engravings # 214 – 284. At the end: lists of Contents, list of Errata and list of Engravings & Maps of all 3 volumes (pp. 581-640). Title page with autograph of old owner (?) 20.11.[18]80. Volume 3 (of 3) presents a geographic review of Malaysia, the Micronesian, Polynesian and Melanesian islands, covering results and discoveries of these voyages, including new classifications and divisions of these islands. M.G.L. Domeny de Rienzi was an explorer of the Orient, etc., an distinguished academe in France & Italy, member of the Historical Institutes, the Geographical Societies, the Societies of Universal Statistics of these 2 countries; also a distinguished member of Asian Society of Paris & Bombay.