Essai sur l'Isle d'Otahiti, située dans la Mer du Sud, et sur l'esprit et les moeurs de ses habitants

by Tahiti, M. Taitbout

$3,200 · Offered by Hordern House

Avignon and Paris: Froulle, 1779. Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece view of Tahiti; a fine copy in original speckled half calf. The earliest separate serious work on Tahiti

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