The rare first Dutch edition of Caillot's Beautés naturelles et historiques des îles, des montagnes et des volcans (1822). It includes descriptions of Mount Vesuvius, Mauritius, Java, Tortuga (Haiti), Ascension Island, Greenland, etc. The description of Tortuga contains an account of the French and English buccaneers who used the island as their main base of operations in the 17th century. When describing Ascension Island, Caillot quotes from the account of James Cook's second voyage. Cook had visited the island on his return voyage to collect turtle meat (which, however, proved not as good as the turtle meat of New South Wales).
With an owner's inscription of J.F. Buisman, dated 9 March, 1935, on first free endleaf. The binding shows some wear, otherwise in very good condition. NCC (3 copies); Saalmink, p. 338.