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LOUIS ANTOINE, COMTE DE BOUGAINVILLE (1729-1811)

Auction 15.07.2005
15.07.2005
Schätzpreis
1.500 £ - 2.500 £
ca. 2.627 $ - 4.378 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.200 £
ca. 7.355 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 183

LOUIS ANTOINE, COMTE DE BOUGAINVILLE (1729-1811)

Auction 15.07.2005
15.07.2005
Schätzpreis
1.500 £ - 2.500 £
ca. 2.627 $ - 4.378 $
Zuschlagspreis:
4.200 £
ca. 7.355 $
Beschreibung:

LOUIS ANTOINE, COMTE DE BOUGAINVILLE (1729-1811) Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du roi, La Boudeuse, et la flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769 . Paris: Le Breton for Saillant & Nyon, 1771. 4° (275 x 210mm.). Half-title. 20 engraved maps and charts, 18 folding, 3 engraved plates. Woodcut title vignette, head- and tailpieces, and initials. (Light spotting and offsetting, occasional short tears to folding maps.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, others with fleurons enclosed by foliate tools, (lightly scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly chipped). FIRST EDITION. THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD. Bougainville sailed from Nantes in November 1766, and, travelling via the Falkland Islands and Buenos Aires, passed through the Strait of Magellan and then crossed the Pacific, visiting the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon, Louisiade, and New Britain Archipelagos. 'At the end of the volume, there is a long description of Tahiti, containing observations concerning the natives as well as a vocabulary of 300 words used on the island given [...] Although Bougainville made only a few important discoveries, he created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific, which resulted in the voyages of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and Jean François de La Pérouse [...] Bougainville's accounts of Pacific Islanders in this work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concepts of the "noble savage", and inspired Denis Diderot to write his denunciation of European contact with indigenous peoples' (Hill). Brunet I, col. 1167; Hill 163; Sabin 6864.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 183
Auktion:
Datum:
15.07.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

LOUIS ANTOINE, COMTE DE BOUGAINVILLE (1729-1811) Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du roi, La Boudeuse, et la flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769 . Paris: Le Breton for Saillant & Nyon, 1771. 4° (275 x 210mm.). Half-title. 20 engraved maps and charts, 18 folding, 3 engraved plates. Woodcut title vignette, head- and tailpieces, and initials. (Light spotting and offsetting, occasional short tears to folding maps.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one, others with fleurons enclosed by foliate tools, (lightly scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly chipped). FIRST EDITION. THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST FRENCH CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD. Bougainville sailed from Nantes in November 1766, and, travelling via the Falkland Islands and Buenos Aires, passed through the Strait of Magellan and then crossed the Pacific, visiting the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon, Louisiade, and New Britain Archipelagos. 'At the end of the volume, there is a long description of Tahiti, containing observations concerning the natives as well as a vocabulary of 300 words used on the island given [...] Although Bougainville made only a few important discoveries, he created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific, which resulted in the voyages of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and Jean François de La Pérouse [...] Bougainville's accounts of Pacific Islanders in this work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concepts of the "noble savage", and inspired Denis Diderot to write his denunciation of European contact with indigenous peoples' (Hill). Brunet I, col. 1167; Hill 163; Sabin 6864.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 183
Auktion:
Datum:
15.07.2005
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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