Decouvertes des Francois En 1768 & 1769 dans le Sud-Est de la Nouvelle Guinee. Et Reconnoissances posterieures des memes Terres par des Navigateurs Anglois qui leur ont impose de nouveaux noms;

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Precedees de l'Abrege historique des Navigations & des Decouvertes des Espagnols dans les memes Parages. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1790.Small 4to. Orig. calf backed continental marbled paper boards with titling label to spine (lower hinges starting but sound). (xvi iv 2 310pp.). With 12 folding engrv. maps. 1st edition. Fine clean copy. Ferguson 81. NOTE: Fleurieu was a French pioneer in the promotion and early history of French South Seas Exploration. This work is principally concerned with the achievements of Louis de Bougainville and Jean de Surville but also contains numerous compilations and translations made from various accounts both published and unpublished of Spanish and English travellers in the Pacific including Mendana Quiros Mourell Carteret Lt. Shortland and Captain Cook.