Voyages.- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de) A Voyage round the World...in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, translated by John Reinhold Forster, first edition in English, 5 folding engraved maps and folding engraved plate, some offsetting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, spine ends repaired, [Sabin 6869], 4to, for J. Nourse...and T.Davies, 1772. ⁂ An account of the first official French circumnavigation. In 1766 Bougainville sailed from Nantes in the frigate La Boudeuse to Rio de Janeiro, then on to the Falklands and thereafter through the South Pacific. The work is noted for its descriptions of Tahiti and includes a vocabulary of the language, the first publication of any Polynesian language.
Voyages.- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de) A Voyage round the World...in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769, translated by John Reinhold Forster, first edition in English, 5 folding engraved maps and folding engraved plate, some offsetting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, spine ends repaired, [Sabin 6869], 4to, for J. Nourse...and T.Davies, 1772. ⁂ An account of the first official French circumnavigation. In 1766 Bougainville sailed from Nantes in the frigate La Boudeuse to Rio de Janeiro, then on to the Falklands and thereafter through the South Pacific. The work is noted for its descriptions of Tahiti and includes a vocabulary of the language, the first publication of any Polynesian language.
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