Author: SOTHEBY'S - LONDON.
Title: Sale 24 June 1957: Catalogue of the Highly Important Papers of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville F.R. S. (1729-1811), Relating to the Seven Year's War in Canada, the Foundation of the First Colony on the Falkland Islands, His Voyage Around the World and the Am
Description: . 50 lots. 45pp. Plates in b/w. Wrs.*The remarkable collection presented here consists of papers which Bougainville himself assembled towards the end of his life, in the hope that they might be used by his friend Delambre as the basis of a biographical study. For some reason this project was never realised, with the result that the collection has remained largely unpublished..

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