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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 flowerfrance'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 oceanhe 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 yearafter 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 pacificsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to topoxfam 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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Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitedelivery service provided by chronopost within a few days"the original work, which presented all parts of the world, was published in and consisted of 32 volumesfrançois 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 ininside in good condition, light soiling, lovely headbands, marbled endpapers, work embellished by 4 fold-out plates by benard" contents; nouveaux voyages dans la mer du sud; byron, carteret, wallis, mcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefirst 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 voyagesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storede la harpe - abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages - - volume 19binding in good condition, work in its period marbled full calfskin bindingribbed spine adorned with gilded compartments, title and volume number labelsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikide bougainville, cook
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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 inplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteearly edition: published in paris inpolignac 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 xvhe 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 xiiianti-lucretius volume 2somewhat aged binding, material losses at the cornershowever, louis xv rehabilitated himcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablein he became a member of the académie royale des sciences, and was its president several timespolignac was relegated to flanders and confined to his abbey d'anchin for 3 yearsthe first edition is fromit was translated into english by george canning in in a self-published tomeour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storein , polignac was elected to the académie française, to the seat once held by bossuetslight marginal bookworm sign, it doesn’t affect the textin he became a member of the académie des inscriptions et belles-lettresare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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Four raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecontains the 4 rare chromolithographs and 21 b/w full-page engravings, protected by tissue paperhombron 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 zéléethis 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 javamorocco-leather bindingtogether with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsvolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoveriesthe 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 conditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablegilt head and gilt edgesjacques bernard hombron () was a french naval surgeon and naturalist (mainly ornithologist)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storerare and sought-after and in fine conditionare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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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 philippinesoxfam 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 overseassee oxfam website for delivery information read moreprinted on glossy papersmall old label marks on the rear covercontains numerous b/w photographs and 12 colour profile illustrationsthe 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 cornermarines' only medium bomber group during wwii
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