Bougainville´s Voyage autour du monde 1772
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THE FIRST FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH. (3). (BOUGAINVILLE, LOUISE-ANTOINE DE). Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi la Bodeuse, et la flûte l´Étoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Seconde édition, augmentée. I-III. Paris (chez Saillant & Nyon) 1772.
8:o. (4), 1-xliii, (1 blank), (1)-336, (4), (1)-453, (3), (2), (2), iii-xvi, (1)-362, (4, last blank) pp. 21 engraved folding maps and plans (all, some offsetting from text to plates, some offsetting from maps to text), 3 engraved plates (all).
Contemporary brown full calf, somewhat worn, mended in the joints, gilt spines in six compartments, redspeckled edges. Minor foxing. 3 volumes.
Vol. III with the title: "Supplément au voyage de m. de Bougainville, ou journal d´un voyage autour du monde, fait par mm. Banks & Solander, anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771. Traduit de l´Anglois, par m. de Fréville".
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (1729- 811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years´ War in North America and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including a circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific expedition, the first recorded settlement on the Falkland Islands, and voyages into the Pacific Ocean. Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea was named for him. Bougainville was the first Frenchman to circumnavigate the earth, and Jeanne Barré who accompanied him was the first woman to do the same. (Wikipedia).
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6140
Datum:
2016-12-20