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FLEURIEU (Charles Pierre Claret, Comte de): VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE pendant les années 1790-1792 par Etienne Marchand, Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an VI-VIII [1798-1800].
FIRST EDITION, 4 vols., 4to (260 x 200mm.), numerous printed tables, one folding, engraved plate and 15 engraved folding maps (library stamps on titles, vols. II & III lacking blank leaves before title?), contemporary half calf (head and foot of spines neatly repaired).
Howes 195 "This French circumnavigation, under Marchand, was preceded only by Bourgainville's. It added considerably to the scanty knowledge of Northwest America and included a scholarly survey of earlier maritime explorers" Hill pp. 105-6; Lada-Mocarski 54. (4)
FIRST EDITION, 4 vols., 4to (260 x 200mm.), numerous printed tables, one folding, engraved plate and 15 engraved folding maps (library stamps on titles, vols. II & III lacking blank leaves before title?), contemporary half calf (head and foot of spines neatly repaired).
Howes 195 "This French circumnavigation, under Marchand, was preceded only by Bourgainville's. It added considerably to the scanty knowledge of Northwest America and included a scholarly survey of earlier maritime explorers" Hill pp. 105-6; Lada-Mocarski 54. (4)