Lot n° 11
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1000 - 1200
EUR
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: 950EUR
[VOYAGE] [BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de] Voyage autour du m - Lot 11
[VOYAGE] [BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de] Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse, et la Flûte l'Étoile ; en 1766, 1767, 1768 1769. Paris, Saillant Nyon, 1771. 1 vol. in-4. Full marbled contemporary calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, gilt title. [4]ff title and epistle, 417pp, [3]pp.
Rare first edition.
Complete with 20 maps and plans, including 18 fold-outs, and three plates of native Pacific boats engraved by Croisey.
With a vocabulary of the Island of Taiti from pages 389 to 402.
Bookseller's label "Au temple de Minerve. Chez Pavie, libraire, Canton des flamands, vis-à-vis la salle du Spectacle, à la Rochelle", pasted on the flyleaf.
Non-missing tears to plate 4: Map of the Straits of Magellan.
A good copy.
Restorations to headpieces.
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