[BOUGAINVILLE (LOUIS ANTOINE DE)] Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte l'Étoile en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769, 2 vol.
[BOUGAINVILLE (LOUIS ANTOINE DE)]
Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte l'Étoile en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769, 2 vol., second edition, 21 engraved folding maps and charts, 3 folding engraved plates, contemporary mottled calf gilt, 8vo, Paris, Saillant & Nyon, 1772
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  • The "first official French circumnavigation" (Hill). Includes a description of the voyage through the Strait of Magellan and across the Pacific, during which time the expedition visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoan Islands, and the New Hebrides.

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