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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 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
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.
