Bougainville, L. A. de. Reis rondom de weereldt, gedaen op bevel des konings van Frankrijk, in de jaren 1766 tot 1769, met het fregat La Boudeuse en het fluitschip L'Etoile. Uit het Fransch vertaeld, en met eenige Aenteekeningen verrijt, door P. Leuter. Dordrecht, A. Blussé en Zoon, 1772. 4to (29:23 cm). Mit gest. Titelvignette, 1 Kupfertafel u. 21 (17 gefalt.) Kupferkarten. 2 Bll., XXVI, 414 S. Mod. Hldr., in mod. Schuber.

Sabin 6872; Du Rietz 166; Tiele 177; Henze I, 320; vgl. Cox I, 55 u. Hill 31 f. - Erste holländische Ausgabe. "Bougainville handed over the Falklands to Spain. He gives an account of the discovery and occupation of the islands, calles Maouines ba the French and Islas Malvinas by the Spaniards.. He then proceeded through the Stait of Magellan and across the Pacific to the East Indies and thence home in a three year voyage which was France's first official circumnavigation of the world. The expedition visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, the Samoa Islands, the New Hebrides, and the Solomon, Louisiade, and New Britaian archipelagoes... Bougainville created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific" (Hill). - Leicht gebräunt bzw. fleckig, wenige kl. Randläsuren. Unbeschnitten.

Rare first Dutch edition, translated from the first French version by P. Leuter. With engraved title vignette, 1 engr. plate and 21 (17 folding) engr. maps. - Slight browning and staining, a few marginal tears. Uncut copy bound in recent half-calf; preserved in a slipcase.