Travels Round the World, in the Years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771

Author: Pierre Marie François de Pagès (1748–1793)Year: 1791Publisher: Printed for P Byrne, W McKenzie, J Moore, J Rice, W Jones, A Grueber, C Draper and R WhitePlace: DublinDescription: xvi+437 pages. Octavo 8" x 5 1/4") bound in original full leather with black and red labels to spine, lettered in gilt housed in a custom enclosure. (Howes P13) First Dublin edition. A British edition of the same year was published in two volumes with a third added later.Pierre Marie François de Pagès, French naval officer, world traveler, and writer, was born of a noble family in Toulouse in 1748. Following the settlement of the Seven Years' War and the relaxed French-Spanish rivalry in North America, Pagès crossed Texas on the first lap of a journey around the world. Leaving his naval vessel at Santo Domingo on June 30, 1767, he sailed to New Orleans, traveled by the Mississippi and Red rivers to Natchitoches, then across Texas and into Mexico by way of the Old San Antonio Road. He returned to France