Voyages.- Fleurieu (Charles Pierre Claret de) Voyage autour du Monde pendant les années 1790, 1791, et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, 4 vol., first edition, vol.1 with folding letterpress table of vocabulary, vol.4 with engraved plate and 15 folding maps, all with delicate hand-colouring, the maps in outline, ex-library copy with perforated stamp to titles, a few other leaves and maps, ink stamp to plate, occasional spotting but generally crisp and clean, original paste-paper boards, uncut, rubbed, green library labels to upper covers and accession numbers to foot of spines, [Hill 215; Sabin 24751], 4to & folio, Paris, An VI-VIII [1798-1800].

⁂ 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).