BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE. A Voyage round the World. London 1772. Another copy, nineteenth-century calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, top compartment of spine torn away, 3 maps with 1-inch tears at inner margins, small stains to 2nd map, one stain partly obscuring a letter, foxing to the world map and scattered throughout, occasional faint discoloration, the usual light offsetting from the maps and plate . Provenance : Francis le Buchanan, bookplate; offsetting from a since removed armorial bookplate onto front flyleaf, device "True to the end."
BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE. A Voyage round the World. London 1772. Another copy, nineteenth-century calf, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, top compartment of spine torn away, 3 maps with 1-inch tears at inner margins, small stains to 2nd map, one stain partly obscuring a letter, foxing to the world map and scattered throughout, occasional faint discoloration, the usual light offsetting from the maps and plate . Provenance : Francis le Buchanan, bookplate; offsetting from a since removed armorial bookplate onto front flyleaf, device "True to the end."
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