(Martinet, Jean-Nicolas) - Dahlgren, Erik Wilhelm: L'expédition de Martinet et la fin du commerce français dans la mer du Sud.
 
Scarce offprint on fine paper from Revue de l’histoire des colonies françaises, 3e trimestre 1913. Paris, Édouard Champion / Émile Larose, 1913. 8vo. 80 pp. Text in French.
 
Recent boards, gilt title along spine, uncut save for top edge. Front printed wrapper preserved, inscribed by the author, ”Lektor Fridolf Ödberg broderligen fr. förf.”.
 
”Martinet’s expedition and the end of French trade in the South Seas”, in French. Dahlgren had written on the subject previously, in ”De franska sjöfärderna till Söderhafvet i början af adertonde seklet. En studie i historisk geografi” (1900).
 
Jean-Nicolas Martinet (1685-1721) was a French naval sailor, ship owner, and a privateer for the King of Spain in 1714, playing an important role in putting an end to French smuggling and clandestine trade to the Spanish colonies. Philip V of Spain ordered Martinet to arm a fleet in France on behalf of the Spanish government, with the approval of the French government, and to seize, and bring back to Spain, all French ships he encountered in the South Sea. Martinet left Saint-Malo with his flotilla of three ships on December 16, 1714, and subsequently undertook various missions.