Author: BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine de.
Title: Reis rondom de weereld, gedaan op bevel des konings van Frankrijk, in de jaren 1766 tot 1769, met het fregat La Boudeuse en het fluitschip L'Etoile. Uit het Fransch vertaeld en met eenige aenteekeningen verrijkt, door Pieter Leuter.
Description: Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé en Zoon, 1772.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt (sl. soiled). With engraved title-vignette, engraved plate and 21 folding engraved maps by A. van Krevelt (1 repaired; mostly browned). XXVI, 412 pp.First Dutch edition, first published in Paris in 1771 Voyage autour du monde. - First French circumnavigation of the world. Louis Antoine Bougainville (1729 - 1811) gives an account of the discovery, occupation and natural history of the Falkland Islands, which he handed over to Spain. He describes in detail the expulsion of the Jesuits of Paraguay. He visited Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Patagonia, Buenos Aires, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, the Solomon, Luisiada, and New Britain archipelago, and the Moluccas, Batavia and Mauritius were visited before he sailed for home by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Ascension Island and arrived once again in France in 1769. He created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific and his work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concept of the 'noble savage'. - (Small part of p. 141/142 missing with some loss of text). Tiele 177; Cat. NHSM I, p.137 (French ed. only); Sabin 6872; Hill 163; Borba de Moraes I, p.115; Howgego B142.

Keywords: America Asia Batavia Dutch travel Indonesia Islands Pacific travel