Voyage autour du monde par la fregate du roi la Boudeuse, et la Flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 et 1769. Seconde édition, augmentée.

2 vol., 8vo: [8]-xliii-336, [4]-453-[1] pp. (maps and pl. missing, browning, some foxing).

Mod. bradel half-cloth. Slipcase.

Second ed. of Bougainville's most important work. The major part of the book is devoted to Tahiti, from which he brought back the strengthened myth of the good savage and the Polynesian paradise.
Ref. Sabin 6865. - BnF.
Prov. Oswald de Kerchove de Denterghem (1844-1906), Belgian liberal politician (arm. bookpl. with the letters "K. O.").