Voyage autour du Monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse… Nouvelle édition, augmentée…

by Louis Antoine de Bougainville

$2,250 · Offered by Hordern House

Neuchâtel: Société Thypographique sic , 1773. Two volumes in one, small octavo; a fine copy in an attractive contemporary binding of marbled calf, sides bordered in gilt, the flat spine ornately gilt with a repeating drawer-handle design. Bougainville's Tahiti: the South Sea paradise

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