Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS-ANTOINE, Comte de. A Voyage Round the World . . . in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Double-page engraved plate; 5 folding double-page maps (lightly offset). xxviii, 476 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, cover edges worn, rebacked; scattered minor foxing, some toning toward end. Armorial bookplate of William Rhodes James; stamp of William Inglis Morse. London: J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772
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first edition in english of the first official French circumnavigation. "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.