LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE, Guillaume Joseph. Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde ... à l'occasion du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil le 6 juin 1761, & le 3 du même mois 1769. Switzerland: les Libraires associés, 1780-82. 5 volumes, 8° (195 x 124mm). 12 engraved plates, 2 folding (small hole in title of vol.III & IV caused by erased stamps, a few margins in vol.III lightly waterstained, some light browning, mainly in vol. I & II). Contemporary mottled calf, spines decorated gilt in compartments, contrasting lettering pieces (spines with some small wormholes, a few wormtracks in covers of vol.V, heads of spines chipped, upper compartment of vol.V repaired). Provenance: A P Biblioteca Famiglia (stamps on titles and blanks) -- M.D (stamp on some titles, partly erased). Gay 3239. (5)