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924 - Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse, e…
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Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse, et la Flûte étoilée; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Second edition, enlarged. 2 vols, 8vo; 24 plates (text n.c., occ. spotting). - Narrative (1st 1771) of the 1st French circumnavigation with professional naturalists and geographers aboard (including a woman, Jeanne Baret, who joined the expedition disguised as a man and was enlisted as assistant to the naturalist Philibert Commerson). Ill. with 24 fold. plates: 21 maps and 3 pl. representing local crafts and boats. The book describes the geography, biology and anthropology of Argentina, Patagonia, Tahiti and Indonesia and had a great influence on some French philosophers of the Enlightenment such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot. - Ref. Sabin 6865 and 6867. - Chadenant 531 (in 3 vol., incl. "Voyage de Banks et Solander [...]" as 3rd vol.).
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Auction time 06/26/2026 at 1:00 PM
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