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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 flowerreports on bougainville's reception there and on life in the island were to create wide interest and controversy in europeoxfam 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 sfrance's concerns that britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed louis de bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken insee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book is in very good condition with some fading to spine and minimal foxing to tophe 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 yearhe 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 pacific
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Ribbed spine adorned with gilded compartments, title and volume number labelsde bougainville, cookde la harpe - abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages - - volume 19are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikidelivery 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 volumesour 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, 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 voyagesbinding in good condition, work in its period marbled full calfskin bindingfrançois 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 inplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteinside in good condition, light soiling, lovely headbands, marbled endpapers, work embellished by 4 fold-out plates by benard
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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 inhe left unfinished a refutation of lucretius, written in latin verse, and published after his death by the abbé de rothelin (anti-lucretius, )somewhat aged binding, material losses at the cornerspolignac 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 was consecrated in rome by pope benedict xiiiare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiearly edition: published in paris inin , 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 timeshowever, louis xv rehabilitated himour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeslight marginal bookworm sign, it doesn’t affect the textcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe first edition is frompolignac was relegated to flanders and confined to his abbey d'anchin for 3 yearsanti-lucretius volume 2in he became a member of the académie des inscriptions et belles-lettresplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit was translated into english by george canning in in a self-published tome
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Morocco-leather bindingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikijacques bernard hombron () was a french naval surgeon and naturalist (mainly ornithologist)gilt head and gilt edgesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storevolume 2 (of 2) of a very beautiful book about the most recent discoveriescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablecontains 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 zéléefour raised bands on the spine, gilt ornamentsthis 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 javatogether with honoré jacquinot he described new species of plants and animalsthe 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 conditionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiterare and sought-after and in fine condition
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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 philippinessmall old label marks on the rear coveroxfam bookshop brigg a forceful study of an elite group of men chosen to form the uprinted on glossy papersee oxfam website for delivery information read morecontains 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 wwiidetailed list of individual squadron aircraft and personnel losses, and all known pbjs assigned to units overseas
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