Description
Item Description:Earliest French circumnavigation of the globe and one of the first in which scientific experiments were included.
Preface signed: De Bougainville.
With a half-title.
Title vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.
With printed shoulder notes.
Maps numbered 1-19, with number 16 consisting of 2 separate leaves; illustrations numbered 1-3.
Errata: page [1] at end; approbation, page [3] at end.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-3F⁴ 3G² [
"Vocabulaire de l'ile Taiti", page 389-402.
Appendix on Tahitian language pronunciation by Jacob Rodrigue Pereire, pages 403-407.
Physical Description:8 unnumbered pages, 417 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, [23] leaves of plates : illustrations, 20 maps (some folded) ; 26 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
Place of Publication:France -- Paris.