Louis Antoine Comte de Bougainville. Voyage autour du monde
This is the first and rare edition, describing France’s first voyage around the world by one of its most famous circumnavigators.
Type of object:
Atlases
Time period:
Ontdekkingsreizigers 18e eeuw
Place:
Paris
Date:
1771
Maker / Author:
Louis Antoine Comte de Bougainville.
Publisher / Printer:
Chez Saillant & Nyon, Libraires, rue S. Jean-de-Beauvais, De l’ Imprimerie de Le Breton, premier Imprimeur ordinaire du Roi. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi
Dimensions:
25.6 x 20.5 cm
Material:
Book with 18 folding maps and contemporaly calf
Graduation:
Inscription:
'Voyage Aut Du Monde' Title in gilt lettering
Provenance:
Delbon collection
References:
Description
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolutionary War against Britain. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific expedition, the first recorded settlement on the Falkland Islands, and voyages into the Pacific Ocean. Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea was named for him.
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