[FRENCH POLYNESIA, with illustrations]. - Lot 66

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[FRENCH POLYNESIA, with illustrations]. - Lot 66
[FRENCH POLYNESIA, with illustrations]. Rare set of books on French Polynesia and the Pacific from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: - DE FREVILLE. Histoire des Nouvelles découvertes faites dans la Mer du Sud en 1767, 1768, 1769 & 1770. Tomes I et II. A Paris, chez De Hansy le Jeune, libraire, 1774, 2 vols. in-8 full speckled calf, five-ribbed spine, gold title and tomaison on morocco parts, complete with folding map, - BENOIT (Pierre). French Oceania. Éditions Alpina, Paris, 1933, with dispatch, half-chagrin with corners, - LE CHARTIER (H.). Tahiti and the French Polynesian colonies. Combet et Cie éditeurs, Paris, 1887, in-8 red half-percaline with corners, - COOK. Histoire abrégée des premier, second et troisième voyages, autour du monde par COOK ; mise à la portée de tout le monde, by BERENGER. Tome Ier. Paris, Chez Dufart. In-8 full calf, five-ribbed spine, title and tomaison in gold on morocco parts, with engraved frontispiece, - COOK. Captain Cook's second voyage around the world, narrated by himself. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous, 1890. In-8 red half cloth with corners, - CAILLOT (A.-C. Eugène). Myths, legends and traditions of the Polynesians. Paris, Ernest Leroux éditeur, 1914. In-4 burgundy half-chagrin, - COOK. History of the first, second and third voyages around the world by COOK; made accessible to everyone by BERENGER. Tomes II et III. A Paris, chez A. Dufart, 1795, 2 vols. in-8 half calf, - Collection de tous les voyages autour du monde par les différentes nations de l'Europe, by M. BERENGER, with figures. Tome VII. A Lausanne, chez J.P. Heuban et Cie et à Genève, chez François Dufart, 1789, 1 vol. in-8 half calf with corners, with bookplate and frontispiece, - ROLLIN (Louis, Dr.). Les Iles Marquises. Geography - Ethnography - History - Colonization and Development. Paris, Société d'éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1929, In-4 half-chagrin, ROLLIN (Louis, Dr.). Les Iles Marquises. Geography - Ethnography - History - Colonization and Development. Paris, Société d'éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1929, In-4 half-chagrin with corners, five-ribbed spine, - BOUGAINVILLE]. Voyage around the World performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769 by LEWIS DE BOUGAINVILLE. Translated from the French by JOHN REINHOLD FORSTER. London, J. Nourse, Bookfeller to His Majesty and T. Davies, Bookfeller, to the Royal Academy, 1773. In-4, full calf, five-ribbed spine, red morocco title page, - LADY BRASSEY. Le Tour du Monde en famille. Voyage of the Brassey Family in their yacht the Sunbeam. Translated from the English by M. Richard VIOT. Second edition, Alfred Mame et fils, Tours, 1885. In-4 red percaline, - DUMONT-D'URVILLE. Voyage autour du monde. Tome Premier. New edition, revised and corrected. Paris, Furne et Cie, éditeurs, 1848. In-4 red half-maroquin, five-ribbed spine, gold title and tomaison, - DUMONT-D'URVILLE. Voyage autour du monde. General summary of voyages of discovery. Accompanied by maps and numerous intaglio engravings on steel, after drawings by M. DE SAINSON. Tome Second. A Paris, chez L. Tenré, libraire-éditeur, 1835. In-4 full red chagrin. A total of 16 works. wear, rubbing, missing parts.
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