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BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE, Comte de. A Voyage Round the World . . . in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Folding engraved plate; 5 folding maps. xxviii, 476 pages. 4to, 252x206 mm, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn; contents generally clean apart from varying offsetting onto engraved matter from facing text pages, upper and lower margins of frontispiece map cropped affecting longitude numbers at bottom. Unidentified 19th-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772
first edition in english of the official account of the first official French circumnavigation, published a year after the original version in French. "During this voyage, Bougainville visited Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Patagonia in South America . . . 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 Solomon, Louisiade, and New Britain archipelagoes" (Hill). Borba de Moraes, pages 115-16; Hill 165.
