Lot 226
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Auction: 13 January 2010 at 11:00 GMT
£13,750
Description
Voyage autour du monde par la frégate La Boudeuse et la flûte l'Étoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1771. First edition, 4to, [[viii], 417, [ii]], 20 folding charts (including the continuation of plate 16), 3 engraved plates, contemporary red morocco, spine gilt, g.e., Northern Light Board stamp at head of spine, marginal repair to P1, very slight offsetting to a few charts
Footnote
Note: Bougainville' s voyage across the Pacific touched at the Tuamotu archipelago and Tahiti (Ahu-toru, a Tahitian was taken back to France), went on to Samoa, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands and the previously unknown Louisiade Archipelago. Sabin 6863; Borba de Moraes, p.115; Hill, pp.31-32