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Nabu Press, 2011-10-05. Paperback. Good.

[iii]-xxiv+323 pages. Lacking leaf a1 (half-title?). With 9 copper-engraved charts, 2 plates of coastal views and profiles, and 1 plate of arms and instruments, all folding. Quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"), 20th century calf-backed (marbled) boards with vellum corners, spine gilt-lettered on green morocco label, raised bands ruled in gilt. (Hill 611) First Edition in English.Translation of Fleureiu's Découvertes des François en 1768 & 1769, dans le Sud-Ést de la Nouvelle Guinée..., (1790).Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu was a French explorer, hydrographer and politician. He was Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, and a member of the Institut de France, as well as the brother of the botanist Marc Antoine Louis Claret de la Tourette. Fleurieu was born in Lyon. Engaged in the Toulon company of the Garde-marine from the age of 13 and a half on 31 October 1755, he subsequently took part in the campaigns of the Seven Years' War— which ended in 1763— participating in the battles of Mahon, Lagos,… Read More

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1791. 4to. (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). xxiv, 323, [1]pp. Half-title. 12 engraved folding maps and plates (9 maps, 2 views, and a plate). Twentieth-century half brown calf over patterned paper covered boards, spine with raised bands, black morocco lettering piece in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt Provenance: J. T. Sureune (signature dated 1837 on endpaper); Thomas Gill (bookplate on the front pastedown) First English edition, following the French edition of the previous year. Writing during a period of intense international rivalry over discoveries in the Pacific, Fleurieu (a French politician and scientist) promotes the discoveries of Bougainville and Jean de Surville at the expense of British claims, though he does acknowledge some of Captain Cook's discoveries. To bolster his claims for the French, Fleurieu uses unpublished manuscripts, as well as the printed accounts of several Spanish and British navigators. An appendix… Read More

London: John Stockdale, 1791. Spine a bit rubbed, joints wearing but firm.. Quarto, with 12 folding charts; in contemporary polished half calf, marbled boards. The first English edition of the great work on the French discovery of the Solomon Islands. Fleurieu, the leading light in the early history of French exploration in the South Seas, gives accounts of the voyages of Mendaña, Quirós, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook and others. The maps are based on actual discoveries, and used to illustrate Fleurieu's theories, most of which were ultimately proved correct. Fleurieu's important book was also a direct result of the voyage of the First Fleet to New South Wales: Phillip's Voyage, first published in 1789, had included the journal of Lieutenant Shortland on his return voyage in the Alexander transport from Botany Bay to England, during which he coasted along a group of large islands which he named "New Georgia". Fleurieu, writing in a period of intense international rivalry over Pacific discoveries,… Read More

London: Printed For John Stockdale, 1791., 1791. 4to. pp. xxiv, 323, [1]errata & directions to binder. with half-title. 12 folding engraved plates (incl. 9 maps) of the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Uncut in 19th century quarter sheep (some foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves, marginal browning & few marginal tears repaired - no loss, first map partly dampstained). First Edition of the English Translation (first: Paris, 1790) of the major account of the French 'rediscovery' of the Solomon Islands. French politician and scientist Fleurieu was prompted to prepare the present work by the publication in Arthur Phillip's Voyage.to Botany Bay (1789) of Lt. Shortland's journal relating his claim to the discovery of 'New Georgia' in 1788. Fleurieu is here chiefly concerned with the accomplishments of Louis de Bougainville, who in 1768 discovered the three northern islands (Buka, Bougainville and Choiseul), and sailed through the channel which divides the last two and… Read More

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1791. xxiv,323,[1]pp. plus nine folding maps, two folding views, and a folding plate. Lacks the half title. Quarto. Modern three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label. Offsetting from the maps, some slight age toning, but a very good, handsome copy. First English edition, following the French edition of the previous year. Writing during a period of intense international rivalry over discoveries in the Pacific, Fleurieu (a French politician and scientist) promotes the discoveries of Bougainville and Jean de Surville at the expense of British claims, although he does acknowledge some of Capt. Cook's discoveries. To bolster his claims for the French, Fleurieu uses unpublished manuscripts, as well as the printed accounts of several Spanish and British navigators. An appendix prints Buache's "Extract from a memoir concerning the existence and situation of Solomon's Islands...." The twelve folding maps and plates relate to New… Read More