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Voyage autour du monde : par la frégate du roi la Boudeuse, et la flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769.: PB 156-2020

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Voyage autour du monde : par la frégate du roi la Boudeuse, et la flûte l'Étoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769.

Maker(s)

Author.: Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, (Comte,)
Bookseller.: Saillant, Charles,
Bookseller.: Nyon, Jean-Luc,
Printer.: Le Breton, André François,
Donor.: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, (Viscount,)

Description

Preface signed: De Bougainville.
Title vignette; head- and tailpieces; initials.
With printed shoulder notes.
Binding: mottled calf, border (triple g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., raised bands, g. lettering on spine labels; marbled e.p. & a.e. marbled.
Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1812. Price on front e.p.
Old classmark: 694.

Voyages around the world Early works to 1800.

Measurements and weight

[8],417,[3]p, [5] leaves of plates, [18] folded leaves of plates : ill, maps ; 26cm (4to).

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Note

Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de,comte,1729-1811author.A Paris :Chez Saillant & Nyon, libraires, rue S. Jean-de-Beauvais :De l'imprimerie de Le Breton, premier imprimeur ordinaire du Roi,M. DCC. LXXI [1771] Saillant, Charles, 1716-1786, bookseller. Nyon, Jean-Luc, -1799, bookseller. Le Breton, André François, 1708-1779, printer. Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount, 1745-1816, donor.

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 156-2020
Primary reference Number: 279336
ALMA control 001: 99120063803606
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 17 December 2020 Updated: Thursday 17 December 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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