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LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de.
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LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600 - €800
Voluntary lot
Description
LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de.
[Atlas]. De La Pérouse’s Voyage Round the World, Published in accordance with the Decree of 22 April 1791...
Paris, Plassan, Year VI (1798).
In-plano, frontispiece title page, portrait, 69 plates including maps. Later blue half-cloth, plain spine (binding worn, a few loose leaves, tears and missing sections affecting 2 plates, one plate with a small marginal tear, slight foxing).
The atlas alone from the first edition in in-8 format, printed one year after the in-4 edition
With a frontispiece titleplate engraved by Moreau the Younger, a portrait of Jean-François de Galaup, Count of La Pérouse, engraved by Alexandre Tardieu, and 69 copperplate engravings in black based on drawings by La Martinière, Prévost and the Duke of Vancy.
With the beautiful frontispiece title page engraved in black.
These include maps and plans, coastal views, landscapes and scenes of local life, plates devoted to flora and fauna, and plates depicting traditional trades...
The two frigates comprising the expedition commanded by La Pérouse, *La Boussole* and *L’Astrolabe*, which set sail from France in 1785, had vanished without trace in 1788. It was not until 30 years later, off the coast of Vanikoro, that various pieces of wreckage belonging to the expedition were found.
Generally, only the four volumes of text are available.
Sabin, 38960.
See original version (French)
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