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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 returned home by way of the dutch east indies and the indian oceanoxfam 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 safter 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 pacificfrance's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken inhe 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 morereports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europe
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibinding in good condition, work in its period marbled full calfskin binding"the original work, which presented all parts of the world, was published in and consisted of 32 volumesribbed spine adorned with gilded compartments, title and volume number labelsde bougainville, cookinside in good condition, light soiling, lovely headbands, marbled endpapers, work embellished by 4 fold-out plates by benarddelivery service provided by chronopost within a few daysfrançois 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 infirst 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 voyagesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store" contents; nouveaux voyages dans la mer du sud; byron, carteret, wallis, mde la harpe - abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages - - volume 19catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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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 inanti-lucretius volume 2are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiin , polignac was elected to the académie française, to the seat once held by bossuethe left unfinished a refutation of lucretius, written in latin verse, and published after his death by the abbé de rothelin (anti-lucretius, )he 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 xvpolignac was relegated to flanders and confined to his abbey d'anchin for 3 yearsthe first edition is fromin he became a member of the académie royale des sciences, and was its president several timesit was translated into english by george canning in in a self-published tomehowever, louis xv rehabilitated himplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeearly edition: published in paris inslight marginal bookworm sign, it doesn’t affect the textin he became a member of the académie des inscriptions et belles-lettressomewhat aged binding, material losses at the cornerscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikijacques bernard hombron () was a french naval surgeon and naturalist (mainly ornithologist)contains the 4 rare chromolithographs and 21 b/w full-page engravings, protected by tissue papertogether with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsthis 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 javafour raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe 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 conditionrare and sought-after and in fine conditionmorocco-leather bindingvolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoveriescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehombron 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 zéléegilt head and gilt edges
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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 philippinesmarines' only medium bomber group during wwiismall old label marks on the rear coverthe 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 cornercontains numerous b/w photographs and 12 colour profile illustrationssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreprinted on glossy paperoxfam bookshop brigg a forceful study of an elite group of men chosen to form the udetailed list of individual squadron aircraft and personnel losses, and all known pbjs assigned to units overseas
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