Voyages.- Fleurieu (Charles Pierre Claret de) A Voyage round the World, performed during the years 1790, 1791, and 1792, by...Étienne Marchand, 2 vol. (text only, lacking Atlas), first English edition, 4 folding letterpress tables, vol.1 with contemporary ink annotation to p.526, original boards, uncut, rubbed, spines defective, [Hill 613, "rarer than the French original"; Sabin 24752], 8vo, 1801.
⁂ ⁂ Marchand was the second Frenchman to circumnavigate the globe, after Bougainville, and his voyage was the first French commercial expedition to the Pacific Northwest.
"A most important work for the history of geographical discovery in the North-West" (Hill).
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