Book title:

Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, by Le Gentil de La Galaisière, Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Baptiste

Keywords: Exploration, India, Indian Ocean, Philippines, Travel, Voyages

Parisian category: Voyages

Printed: between 0 and 3,000 copies

Acquired: 1 full copy

Sold and Given: between 375 and 1,153 copies

Returns: 1 full copy

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Full title: Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi à l'occasion du passage de Vénus sur le disque du soleil, le 6 juin 1761 et le 3 du même mois 1769
Edition type (by origin): Livres en Société: STN joint editions

Author(s): Le Gentil de La Galaisière, Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Baptiste
Language(s): French
Publication: En Suisse [Neuchâtel]: Libraires associés [Société Typographique de Neuchâtel], 1780-1781
Details: 5 volumes, pages: [2], 344, [3]; [2], 364, [3]; VIII, 431, [1 bl.]; [2], 128 [i.e. 434]; [2], 333, [3 bl.]

LFB Catalogue 1787
STN Catalogue 1785

Notes: Attribution - known confederation edition. Fauche-Borel Catalogue (1787) gives (Lausanne, 1782) but transactions data demonstrate this is the confederation edition. NB. 27 May 1780 (MS1035 Brouillard C f.277) shows that the Société Typographique de Berne also sent 298 copies of the 'figures' of this work to the STN.