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Voyages.- Bougainville (Louis-Antoine, Comte de) Voyage Autour du Monde, par la Frégate du Roi La Boudeuse et la Flûte L'Étoile, first edition, half-title, woodcut device on title, initials, head- & tail-pieces, 20 engraved maps (18 folding) and 3 plates, 3pp. errata/directions to binder/privilege at end, contemporary ink signature of H.Sloane to title, light staining to Oo1 and one plate, otherwise a very good clean copy, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, joints split and spine worn at head, [Sabin 6864], 4to, Paris, chez Saillant & Nyon, 1771. ⁂ Account of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, which began as an expedition by Bougainville to secure the Falkland Islands (Îles Malouines) and Patagonia for the French. The expedition was also notable for losing only seven out of the two hundred men who began the expedition and for carrying the first woman on a circumnavigation (the mistress of the ship's botanist, disguised as his valet).