MARCHAND (Étienne). Voyage autour du monde, pendant les anné - Lot 160

MARCHAND (Étienne). Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1790, 1791 et 1792... précédé d'une introduction historique ; auquel on a joint des recherches sur les terres australes de Drake, et un examen critique du voyage de Roggeween. Paris, imprimerie de la République, An VI-VIII [1798-1800]. 5 volumes in-8, first edition, published the same year as the in-4 edition by Charles-Pierre Claret de Fleurieu of Marchand's voyage, the second circumnavigation by a Frenchman after Bougainville's, with the aim, among other things, of establishing a fur trade between North America and China. Despite the commercial failure, he brought back observations on the coasts of Australia and New Guinea. Includes 10 folding tables. Bound in contemporary brown half morocco, smooth spine decorated. (atlas incomplete, spine unstained, binding rubbed).