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Although bougainville published an account of his voyage in , his original journal was published only in ; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in english translationhe then sailed to the samoan islands and on to vanuatu, as far as the great barrier reef, and north towards new guinea and the samoan islands making a number of discoveries and all the while leaving his name to a number of features, the best known of which are the island of bougainville and the bougainvillea flowerhe made a number of discoveries in the south west, but was too late to discover tahiti, where samuel wallis had preceded him by less than a yearthe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to topsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefrance's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken inreports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europehe returned home by way of the dutch east indies and the indian oceanafter handing over the colony he had established in the falkland islands to spain, he sailed through the still relatively unknown straits of magellan into the poorly charted south pacificoxfam shop haverfordwest the french entered the pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a spanish preserve until british navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid s
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki" contents; nouveaux voyages dans la mer du sud; byron, carteret, wallis, mde la harpe - abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages - - volume 19"the original work, which presented all parts of the world, was published in and consisted of 32 volumesfirst started in england, then taken over by the abbé prévôt (), a vast compilation and translation into french of numerous expedition and travel reports were published in france under the title histoire générale des voyagesde bougainville, cookdelivery service provided by chronopost within a few daysour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storebinding in good condition, work in its period marbled full calfskin bindinginside in good condition, light soiling, lovely headbands, marbled endpapers, work embellished by 4 fold-out plates by benardplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefrançois de la harpe (), trimming out what he considered useless and uninteresting, and adding the trips made since the publication of abbé prévôt's work, including cook's travels, published that work incatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableribbed spine adorned with gilded compartments, title and volume number labels
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Polignac's poem was very popular in the 18th century and translated several times: for example, jean-pierre de bougainville translated it into french prose inslight marginal bookworm sign, it doesn’t affect the textare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipolignac was relegated to flanders and confined to his abbey d'anchin for 3 yearsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeanti-lucretius volume 2he was consecrated in rome by pope benedict xiiipolignac became involved in the cellamare conspiracy, which attempted to dislodge philippe d'orleans from the regency, and replace him with philip v of spain, uncle of the young king louis xvsomewhat aged binding, material losses at the cornersin , polignac was elected to the académie française, to the seat once held by bossuetin he became a member of the académie royale des sciences, and was its president several timesthe first edition is fromhe left unfinished a refutation of lucretius, written in latin verse, and published after his death by the abbé de rothelin (anti-lucretius, )please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteearly edition: published in paris inin he became a member of the académie des inscriptions et belles-lettresit was translated into english by george canning in in a self-published tomehowever, louis xv rehabilitated himcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Together with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikirare and sought-after and in fine conditiongilt head and gilt edgesvolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoverieshombron served on the french voyage of discovery of dumont d'urville between and to map the perimeter of antarctica with two ships, the astrolabe and the zéléethe coloured chromolithographs are not present in all editions and are only included in the deluxe edition! pages slightly browned and spotted commensurate with age, otherwise in excellent conditionour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis volume includes descriptions of the travels of la pérouse, bougainville, the murder of captain cook, the pelew islands, the discovery of new zealand, the travels of bontekoe, borneo, algeria, australia and javacontains the 4 rare chromolithographs and 21 b/w full-page engravings, protected by tissue paperfour raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitemorocco-leather bindingjacques bernard hombron () was a french naval surgeon and naturalist (mainly ornithologist)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Verterans recall their service flying combat missions against enemy garrisons on bougainville and new ireland, and later in the dramatic rocket and ground-strafing attacks in the philippinesdetailed list of individual squadron aircraft and personnel losses, and all known pbjs assigned to units overseasthe book covers have light general handling marks and indentations on the glossy surface; a little creasing across the upper right front corner and rubbing to the lower cornerprinted on glossy papersee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontains numerous b/w photographs and 12 colour profile illustrationsoxfam bookshop brigg a forceful study of an elite group of men chosen to form the umarines' only medium bomber group during wwiismall old label marks on the rear cover
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