GENDRIN (Victor-Athanase).
Récit historique, exact et sincère, par mer et par terre, de quatre voyages...
Trade in newly independent South America
A privately printed memoir of travel and trade in South America.
In 1816, at the age of twenty-three, Gendrin left his native France for Rio de Janeiro. Once there he engaged in trading various commodities (including mirrors and watches), before embarking on a voyage to Valparaiso where he settled, again partaking in the developing trade (this time, of independent Chile). He then journeyed coast-to-coast, arriving at Buenos Aires, from where he departed for France.
Rare. Gendrin had a relatively small number of copies printed (probably less than 250, as 130 were sent to French libraries), all of which were presented to a library or individual. This copy is inscribed: “Offert par l’auteur a Monsieur paul lejeas, Versailles le 2. octobre 1857. V Gendrin”.
No copies in Copac, though OCLC locates 13. Borba de Moraes, 1, 348. Not in Sabin.
