Author: BOUGAINVILLE Louis Antoine de :
Title: Voyage autour du Monde par la Frégate du Roi La Boudeuse, et La Flûte L'Etoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769.
Description: Paris, chez Saillant & Nyon, 1771, in-4°, 26 x 19 cm, (10) + 417 + (3) pp + 19 folding maps on 20 plates & 3 full page engravings, ( complete). Bound in contemporary full mottled calf,triple fillet on both covers, raised back with gilt compartments, marbled endpapers & edges, apart from a tiny marginal wormhole and a small restoration at the top turn-in, a very nice and crisp copy. First edition of the circumnavigation by Bougainville. It contains also the first dictionary French-Tahiti. (Sabin 6863, Chadenat 1557). .

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