Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE, Comte de. A Voyage Round the World . . . in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Folding engraved plate and map. xxxii, 480 pages. 8vo, 209x120 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, cover corners bumped; occasional light foxing and marginal soiling, scattered small ink blots, small crude ink drawing of sailing ship on front endleaf. Bookplate of Edward Wright Clap. Dublin: J. Exshaw et al., 1772

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first dublin edition of the translation originally published the same year in London. The original version in French first appeared in 1771. Bougainville's expedition was the first French circumnavigation. Hill 166.