Voyages.- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de) Voyage autour du Monde par la Fregate du Roi "La Boudeuse"..., 2 vol. (without supplement), second edition, half-titles, 21 folding engraved maps and 3 folding plates, a few small rust spots but a good clean copy, bookplate of William Tighe, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, a little rubbed, spines and corners repaired, lower corners of vol.1 slightly nibbled, vol.2 rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, [Sabin 6865], 8vo, Paris, chez Saillant & Nyon, 1772. ⁂ Account of the first French circumnavigation with much information on South America and on the South Seas, particularly Tahiti, including a Tahitian vocabulary.
Voyages.- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de) Voyage autour du Monde par la Fregate du Roi "La Boudeuse"..., 2 vol. (without supplement), second edition, half-titles, 21 folding engraved maps and 3 folding plates, a few small rust spots but a good clean copy, bookplate of William Tighe, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, a little rubbed, spines and corners repaired, lower corners of vol.1 slightly nibbled, vol.2 rebacked preserving most of old gilt spine, [Sabin 6865], 8vo, Paris, chez Saillant & Nyon, 1772. ⁂ Account of the first French circumnavigation with much information on South America and on the South Seas, particularly Tahiti, including a Tahitian vocabulary.
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