76/ 952 Bougainville, L.A. de. Reis rondom de weereld, gedaen op bevel des konings van Frankrijk, in de jaren 1766 tot 1769, met het fregat La Boudeuse en het fluitschip L'Etoile. Dutch transl. and ed. P. Leuter. Dordr., De Leeuw en Krap, 1793, (4),XII,370p., engr. title-vignette, 21 (mostly fold.) maps, 1 plate, modern gilt leather w. mor. letterpiece, 4to.

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= Second enlarged Dutch edition of Voyage autour du monde (...), first published in Paris in 1771. Tiele 177 (1st ed.); Sabin 6872; Henze I, p.320; Cat. NHSM p.137 (ed. Paris, 1772); Rouffaer/ Muller p.601 (ed. Paris, 1771); Oeilly/ Reitman 289; Howgego B142; Cox I, p.55 (other eds.): "The expedition here described had to do with the delivery of the Falkland Islands to Spain (...). After having performed this duty he was ordered to proceed across the Pacific Ocean to the East Indies and thence back home. This was the first French expedition to sail around the world... The expedition visited the Island of Tahiti, which was annexed for France and called La Nouvelle Cythere... Several other South Sea islands were also visited (...)". Hill 163: "Bougainville's accounts of Pacific Islanders in this work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau's concepts of the "noble savage", and inspired Denis Diderot to write his denunciation of European contact with indigenous peoples."