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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  15
• Lot Description:
  Bougainville, Louis Antoine de. A Voyage round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty
  in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769... in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-ship L’Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. Quarto, with five folding maps and a folding plate, calf of the period rebacked retaining the original gilt-decorated spine, contrasting label. London, Printed for J. Nourse and T. Davies, 1772.
• Notes:
  First English edition. Translated by Georg Forster – although unacknowledged – with an introduction and notes by his father, Johann Reinhold Forster. Although Forster praises the work in his introduction (“a learned, intelligent, and judicious traveller”), he adds that he has “partially vindicated the British nation where we thought the author had been unjustly partial”. Davidson, pp. 96-7; Hill 2, 165; Kroepelien, 113; Sabin, 6869.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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