Nouveau Voyage a la Mer du Sud, Commencé sous les ordres de M. Marion

by Julien Marie Crozet

$6,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Seven engraved plates one folding . viii,290, 1 pp. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, blue-stained edges, minor wear. Minor scattered toning. Hill 401; Sabin 17716. Item #374976 This voyage, commanded by Nicholas Thomas Marion du Fresne, had a twofold purpose: to return Mayoa, a native from Tahiti, who had been taken to France in 1769 by Bougainville; and to seek for the great southern

• Binding: Leather

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