1772, ISBN: 0dc87ff007bab0cd682ca7440e6c1c34

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TRAVEL & EXP, VOYAGES, TAHITI, S AMERICA, PACIFIC O, FINE/GEN AM, BOUGAINVILLE, Lewis de. Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767… Plus…

TRAVEL & EXP, VOYAGES, TAHITI, S AMERICA, PACIFIC O, FINE/GEN AM, BOUGAINVILLE, Lewis de. Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. London; Printed for J. Nourse . and T. Davies, 1772. 1st English ed. 4to. xxviii,476pp. Copper-engraved folding plate, 12 charts on five copper-engraved folding plates. Orig. marbled boards, rebacked in period-style gilt-decorated calf, raised spine bands, red morocco spine label. Boards rubbed, edgewear, some faint scattered foxing, else very good or better. Cox I,55. Hill 165. Sabin 6869. Account of the first official French circumnavigation. Louis de Bougainville had been aide-de-camp to Montcalm in Canada and acted for the French at their surrender at Montreal in 1760. A chapter of this work is devoted to the natural history of the Falkland Islands. "During this voyage, Bougainville visited Rio de Janeiro, Notevideo, and Patagonia in South America; he was also in Buenos Aires when the order for the expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay arrived, which he describes in detail. He then proceeded through the Strait of Magellan and across the Pacific, visiting the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Salomon, Louisiade, and New Britain archipelagos. There is a long description of Tahiti, containing observations on the natives as wel as a vocabulary of 300 words used on the island"--Hill. Bougainville's voyage created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific, which resulted in the voyages of du Fresne and de La Perouse. The flowering vine is named for him as well as the largest island in the Solomons. He later took part in the American Revolution, survived the French revolution, and was made a senator and count by Napoleon.<

1772, ISBN: 0dc87ff007bab0cd682ca7440e6c1c34

1772. BOUGAINVILLE, Lewis de. Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. London; Printed for J. Nourse ... and T. … Plus…

1772. BOUGAINVILLE, Lewis de. Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. London; Printed for J. Nourse ... and T. Davies, 1772. 1st English ed. 4to. xxviii,476pp. Copper-engraved folding plate, 12 charts on five copper-engraved folding plates. Orig. marbled boards, rebacked in period-style gilt-decorated calf, raised spine bands, red morocco spine label. Boards rubbed, edgewear, some faint scattered foxing, else very good or better. Cox I,,55. Hill 165. Sabin 6869. Account of the first official French circumnavigation. Louis de Bougainville had been aide-de-camp to Montcalm in Canada and acted for the French at their surrender at Montreal in 1760. A chapter of this work is devoted to the natural history of the Falkland Islands. "During this voyage, Bougainville visited Rio de Janeiro, Notevideo, and Patagonia in South America; he was also in Buenos Aires when the order for the expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay arrived, which he describes in detail. He then proceeded through the Strait of Magellan and across the Pacific, visiting the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Salomon, Louisiade, and New Britain archipelagos... There is a long description of Tahiti, containing observations on the natives as wel as a vocabulary of 300 words used on the island"--Hill. Bougainville's voyage created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific, which resulted in the voyages of du Fresne and de La Perouse. The flowering vine is named for him as well as the largest island in the Solomons. He later took part in the American Revolution, survived the French revolution, and was made a senator and count by Napoleon., 1772, 0<

1970, ISBN: 0dc87ff007bab0cd682ca7440e6c1c34

Upper Saddle River (New Jersey), The Gregg Press, 499 p.: 1 ill. Leinen / Cloth. Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen, ingesamt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding a bit rubbed and bum… Plus…

Upper Saddle River (New Jersey), The Gregg Press, 499 p.: 1 ill. Leinen / Cloth. Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen, ingesamt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding a bit rubbed and bumped, yellowed overall, otherwise good condition. - INTRODUCTION. In presenting to the public the following narration of Voyages, &c., the author has thought proper to introduce the same with a sketch of the earlier period of his life, premising that the unsettled state of the country at that time, engaged in war with Great Britain, possessing but few opportunities, and those few confined mostly to the cities, in the improvement of which the inhabitants could obtain ought more than an ordinary education ; together with the little leisure that a seaman?s profession, ever since steadily prosecuted, has allowed him, to increase the instruction obtained from the tutor in charge of the school of his native borough, and the possibility that it would ever fall to his lot to publish any thing connected with himself never entering his mind, must plead in excuse for any grammatical errors that criticism may discover in these pages. In fact, nothing has induced him to place their contents before the public eye, but an earnest desire that his friends and countrymen may obtain such information, as while it shall please and instruct by bringing to the circle around the fire-side events as they occurred in those far distant climes, shall also lay before others whose business may call them that way, such suggestions as when faithfully followed will promote their advantage, and be of service to them.Reise 1970<