BOUGAINVILLE (Louis Antoine de).Voyage autour du monde, par - Lot 13

BOUGAINVILLE (Louis Antoine de).Voyage autour du monde, par la frégate du roi la Boudeuse, et la flûte l'Étoile; En 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. - Supplément au voyage de M. de Bougainville ; ou journal d'un voyage autour du monde, Fait par MM. Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771. Translated from the English, by M. de Fréville.Paris : Saillant & Nyon, 1772. -2 works in 3 volumes in-8, 193 x 121: (4 ff.), xliij, 336 pp., 6 maps; (2 ff.), 453 pp., (1 f.), 15 maps, 3 plates; (1 f.), xvj, 362 pp., (2 ff.). Marbled calf, ornate spine, red edges (period binding).partly original second edition of the account of France's first scientific voyage around the world. This historic circumnavigation, led by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville from November 1766 to March 1769 under the royal flag, marked a major milestone in eighteenth-century scientific exploration. The expedition, which crossed the Pacific between the Strait of Magellan and the Philippines before returning via the Indian Ocean, brought together a team of eminent scientists: the astronomer Pierre-Antoine Véron, in charge of determining longitudes, the engineer Charles Routier de Romainville, responsible for cartography, and the botanist Philibert Commerson, who discovered the flower later named bougainvillea in Brazil. The voyage led to the discovery of the Vahitahi and Akiaki atolls, and considerably enriched geographical knowledge of Oceania and European naturalist collections. The edition is illustrated with 21 maps and plans and 3 plates. The second volume closes with a "Vocabulary of Taiti Island (sic)". A complete copy of the third volume, featuring the French translation of the Journal d'un voyage autour du monde made by Joseph Banks and Daniel Charles Solender between 1768 and 1771, presented on the title as a Supplément au voyage de M. de Bougainville. This unillustrated volume includes an "Abridged Vocabulary of the Language of the Island of Otahiti", a "Letter from M. de Commerson to M. de La Lande" on Madagascar, and a reflection on "the possibility of a passage from the North Sea to the South Sea through the northern seas". The title is hardback. Handsome set in uniform contemporary bindings. A very well preserved copy. The two leaves of the epistle to the king, which should be at the head of the first volume, have been bound in error in the Preliminary Discourse (after page xxxiv and before page xliij), and some leaves of this discourse are bound out of order.