BOUGAINVILLE (Hyacinthe-Yves de)Livre Rare Book
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1837ref. PHO-2280Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1837, 2 volumes (3) grand in-4° (30x24,5cm), VIII pp., 742 pp., demi chagrin et coins époque, dos lisse avec auteur, titre et tomaison, frottements au dos, quelques rousseurs, défaut à la coiffe supérieure. Édition originale du texte du voyage du Bougainville autour du monde, manque l’atlas.
1799ref. PHO-333Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8 ,demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. Légt post., mors usagés et rongés) et un atlas in-folio en seconde édition (1817) brochure moderne en papier marbré. Texte :Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp.Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1)f. Atlas : titre gravé, grande carte sur double page (Mer des Indes et une partie de celle du Sud, par Darbié du Bocage - volante) et 43 planches (vues, scènes, costumes, portraits et types, faune et flore) gravées sur cuivre par Dien, Copia, Pérée, etc., d'après Piron, Redouté, Audebert, etc. représentant des personnages, des scènes de vie, des armes, des vues, la faune et la flore. Nombreuses piqûres et taches d'humidité, mais papier solide, à bonnes marges.
ref. H492Berlin und Hamburg 1800. Bibliothek der neuesten und interessantesten Reisebeschreibungen Band 23. 8vo. 410 S. mit 1 gest. Frontispiz 1 Portraitvignette auf dem Titel 2 Kupfertafeln 1 gef. Karte; 344 S. mit gest Frontispiz 1 Titelvignette 1 gefalt. Karte. Halblederbände der Zeit mit RSchild etwas berieben Rotschnitt guter Zustand. unknown
1808ref. 164452Imprimerie Impériale A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. Tome I seul, Un volume très fort In-folio, relié cartonnage d'attente de l'époque, LVI + 704 pages et 32 planches dépliantes. Le corps de l'ouvrage est en très bon état, les pages, à grandes marges ne sont ni tachées ni affectéees de rousseurs, imprimées sur beau papier. Les planches dépliantes sont également en bon état, présentant juste quelques petites pointes de rousseurs dans les marges sans gravité. La reliure (cartonnage d'attente) est en mauvais état. Rappelons que d'Entrecateaux avait été envoyé, en 1781) par Louis XVI à la recherche de La Pérouse
1799ref. 3812959Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer 1799. A few light spots but a very good copy. Small octavo; in attractive original Scandinavian half calf binding. Rare Swedish edition of the voyage of La Pérouse whose fame was so widespread that there was a ready market for accounts of his voyage across Europe and beyond. Within four years of the publication of the official French edition in 1797 translations appeared in London Edinburgh Paris Stockholm Leipzig Berlin Copenhagen Haarlem St. Petersburg Boston and Amsterdam. This Swedish version was prepared by Samuel Ödmann from the octavo French edition. He also provides a preface. Not in the catalogue of the Hill collection; Ferguson knew the book only from copies in the Mitchell Library and the Kroepelien Collection Oslo. . Johan Pfeiffer unknown
1798ref. 28466London: G. G. & J. Robinson. Fair No dust jacket as issued. First Edition. Disbound. Scarce with the world map. Disbound. Binding poor. Boards detached. 19th century full leather binding leather deteriorating. A very worn earlier leather spine is also partially present with a worn gilt title "CHARTS / & / PLATES / TO / PEROUSE". This earlier spine is still on the back of the text block and the later 19th century leather binding wrapped over the top of it. Boards with heavy dust stains rubbing and abrasions white spider droppings soiling to an area on front board. The plates are generally good throughout with throughout a moderate dampstain and tidemark to the lower inner corner of the leaves this dampstained area of each leaf generally measuring in triangular dimensions about 175mm x 120mm by 200mm along the hypotenuse. One plate number #55 "Niskani Aoucantouri & Erougantoi / Orotchis" and also the verso of the preceding plate #54 have scattering of black mould spots but these are atypical and the other plates are cleaner. One plate #24 "A Woman of Port des Francais" has a 15mm abrasion in the middle of the plate across the face of the central subject. There is also a sprinkle of black mould spots on the rear pastedown endpaper. Provenance: Early owner's name on list of plates page illegible to me possibly W D Valpy 19th century label "Oamaru / Mechanics' Institute" on inside of front board. 20th century rubber stamp on verso of title leaf "North Otago Museum Oamaru". Suitable for rebinding. Photos shown in this listing have been selected to try and show the worst faults of the volume and to give a good representation of the condition of the volume. Additional photos can be sent of any plates or part of the volume.; Title page dated 1798 but this volume was issued in 1799 along with 2 text volumes not included. Atlas volume only. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. 1-2 engraved title leaf 1-2 "List of the Charts and Plates to La Perouse's Voyage" 69 plates maps and illustrations. Board detached. Page dimensions: 415 x 268mm. Some of the plates are double page with 1 chart across the 2 pages. Some of the double page plates have 2 or 3 smaller plans or illustrations e.g. Plate #10 has these 3 illustrations: "Plan of Easter Island" "Views of Easter Island" and "Plan of Cook's Bay". This copy includes the large folding map of the world which is "frequently lacking" Forbes. The folding world map Plate No. 1 measures 925 x 620mm and has outline hand-colouring. The plates includes several charts of the Sandwich Islands and of the coast of California. Davidson "Book Collector's Notes" pp.101-2 - "preference should always be given to the Robinson issue of 1799 as it is the best translation and includes the largest number of plates and charts." - page 102; Ferguson 288; Forbes "Hawaiian" 311 - "the large folding 'Map of the World . . .' is for unknown reasons frequently lacking." ; Hill 975; Hordern House "Parsons Collection" Part II 214 . 1798. G. G. & J. Robinson unknown
1801ref. 843601801. LA PEROUSE Jean Francois. A Voyage Round the World. Performed in the Years 1785 1786 1787 1788.TO which are added A Voyage from Manilla to California by Don Antonio Maurelle: and an Abstract of the Voyage and Discoveries of the Late Capt. G. Vancouver. Boston: Joseph Bumstead 1801 333pp. Contemporary full leather morocco spine label skillfully rebacked. Some toning throughout else very good. Hill 976. Sabin 38966. Howes L-93. Forbes 331. Shaw & Shoemaker 789. Ferguson 333. Reese Best of the West 20. Kroepelien 1331.The rare first American edition of one of the most important Pacific voyages. The La Perouse account was first published in Paris in French in 1797 and in English in 1798. This is one of the earliest Pacific voyages to appear in an American edition and published much less modestly than the French and British editions would have been the way the average American would have learned about La Perouse's important surveys of the Pacific coast and his descriptions of native Americans there. This is also the first American version although only a precis of Vancouver's voyage first published in London in 1798. The 1781 voyage of Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle incorrectly spelled in this edition's title went from the Philippines to the South Pacific where he explored in the vicinity of New Guinea and the Tonga Islands before sailing to Mexico. Howes is inaccurate in his pagination of this edition and the Hill copy contains a map that was added later. unknown
1801ref. 55883Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead 1801. First American Edition of an Important Pacific Voyage This copy bears the bookplate on the front pastedown of James Edge Partington 1854-1930 the well-respected British anthropologist who was especially interested in Pacific island ethnology. The rare first American edition of one of the most important Pacific voyages. The La Pérouse account was first published in Paris in French in 1797 and in English in 1798. This is one of the earliest Pacific voyages to appear in an American edition and published much less modestly than the French and British editions would have been the way the average American would have learned about La Pérouse's important surveys of the Pacific coast and his descriptions of native Americans there. This is also the first American version although only a précis of Vancouver's voyage first published in London in 1798. The 1781 voyage of Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle incorrectly spelled in this edition's title went from the Philippines to the South Pacific where he explored in the vicinity of New Guinea and the Tonga Islands before sailing to Mexico. Howes is inaccurate in his pagination of this edition and the Hill copy contains a map that was added later. Contemporary tree calf rebacked in modern calf ruled in gilt gilt leather label. Corners and edges worn boards moderately rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown see below. Moderate tanning scattered foxing. Good plus. HILL 976. SABIN 38966. HOWES L93. FORBES 331. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 789. FERGUSON 333. KROEPELIEN 1331. hardcover
1801ref. 55883Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead 1801. First American Edition of an Important Pacific Voyage This copy bears the bookplate on the front pastedown of James Edge Partington 1854-1930 the well-respected British anthropologist who was especially interested in Pacific island ethnology. The rare first American edition of one of the most important Pacific voyages. The La Pérouse account was first published in Paris in French in 1797 and in English in 1798. This is one of the earliest Pacific voyages to appear in an American edition and published much less modestly than the French and British editions would have been the way the average American would have learned about La Pérouse's important surveys of the Pacific coast and his descriptions of native Americans there. This is also the first American version although only a précis of Vancouver's voyage first published in London in 1798. The 1781 voyage of Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle incorrectly spelled in this edition's title went from the Philippines to the South Pacific where he explored in the vicinity of New Guinea and the Tonga Islands before sailing to Mexico. Howes is inaccurate in his pagination of this edition and the Hill copy contains a map that was added later. Contemporary tree calf rebacked in modern calf ruled in gilt gilt leather label. Corners and edges worn boards moderately rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown see below. Moderate tanning scattered foxing. Good plus. HILL 976. SABIN 38966. HOWES L93. FORBES 331. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 789. FERGUSON 333. KROEPELIEN 1331. hardcover books
1808A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. Tome I seul, Un volume très fort In-folio, relié cartonnage d'attente de l'époque, LVI + 704 pages et 32 planches dépliantes. Le corps de l'ouvrage est en très bon état, les pages, à grandes marges ne sont ni tachées ni affectéees de rousseurs, imprimées sur beau papier. Les planches dépliantes sont également en bon état, présentant juste quelques petites pointes de rousseurs dans les marges sans gravité. La reliure (cartonnage d'attente) est en mauvais état. Rappelons que d'Entrecateaux avait été envoyé, en 1781) par Louis XVI à la recherche de La Pérouse
1808ref. PHO-1626Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1808. 2 grands et forts volumes in-4 (32x24), lvi, 704 p., 33 pl. ; viii, 692 p., relié demi basane et coins moderne, dos avec auteur, titre, tomaison, lieu et date, exlibris en page de garde, non rogné, tome 2 non coupé, petite mouillure au tome 2, petites rousseurs aux illustrations du tome 1. Exemplaire sur papier bleuté, complet de son illustration mais sans son atlas de cartes
1800ref. 51892London 1800 2 volumes in-8 et un atlas in-4, demi-basane blonde, dos lisse orné de roulettes et fers dorés rel. post., LXII- 464- VII- 423- 43 pp. & 6 pp. - 44 planches gravées dont une grande carte dépliante. Quelques brunissures marginales, hum. angulaire sans gravité sur près de 50 pp. au second volume de texte et 12 planches légère et sans atteinte aux gravures. Bon exemplaire.
1798ref. 43609London: Published as the Act directs Nov 1st 1798. by G.G.& J. Robinson 1798. Folio. 43x 27cm. 17" x 14.5". Atlas Volume First English Edition foliated engraved frontis portrait and engraved title-page 68 fine engraved plates maps charts and views many double page and include several plate illustrations on botanical and ornithological subjects. The plates are numbered 2 - 69 without the world map as usual plates are all very good to fine in contemporary half crimson morocco and marbled boards binding heavily dust worn similar wear on the edges upper hinge loose internally very good to fine condition. The map of the world is sometimes described as wanting however it would usually be in the two volume and is not call for in the list of plates ~ ~ ~ Hill #'s 972-979. "La Perouse expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and North West Coast of North America. Hill. "Sabin 38960; Cox I-67. Fine copy of this Important 'Surveying Atlas' to the Pacific and west coast of North America. 1798. The plates are spectacular. - Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world. Cook Bougainville and La Pérouse contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific. On the unexpected publication of this famous voyage at Paris in the previous year 1797 there was considerable competition among English publishers to bring out the English translation. Three different translations were made and published during 1798-99 and different engravers were employed for making the plates. Stockdale's appeared first in June 1798. Robinson's edition of 1799 is the most esteemed edition in English later editions being usually based on it." The atlas bears the date 1798 in the imprint but was published together with two text volumes in 1799. Published, as the Act directs, Nov, 1st, 1798. by G.G.& J. Robinson unknown
1800ref. PHO-1086Texte In-8 (200 x 130 mm) Relié demi-basane, dos orné pièce de titre et de tomaison ,T1 manque coiffe sup.,T2 ,manque coiffes, papier bruni. 440 pp et 332 pp suivi de 109 pp de vocabulaire et table des planches contenues dans l’atlas, table des chapitres du volume et errata. ATLAS Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l’Assemblée constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme année de la République Française. Paris : H. J. Jansen, An VIII de la République (1800). — In-folio, 510 x 335 : titre, 1 carte, 43 planches. Demi toile , dos lisse avec titre , planches 6 détachée et 35 détachée et émargée , dédicace «à Mr V. Rey, secrétaire général de la Nouvelle Calédonie,1903»
1815ref. 57571Milano: Dalla Tipografia Sonzogno e Comp. 1815. Italian Edition of La Pérouse in Remarkable Original Condition The first Italian edition of La Pérouse's monumental journey here in beautiful original condition and rarely encountered thus. "La Pérouse's expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America.The charge to the expedition was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries peoples and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter.La Pérouse and his men did important geographical research including visits to Easter Island the first on-shore visit to Hawaii by Europeans Macao Formosa the Aleutian Islands Samoa Tonga and Australia.The voyage also included the first foreign scientific group ever to visit Alta California.La Pérouse sent dispatches back to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay." - Hill. La Pérouse sent back copies of his journals throughout the journey both overland across Russia and via British ships met at Botany Bay in the spring of 1788. After he left Australia his party was never seen again and it was not until the 1820s that the wrecks of his ships were discovered on a reef in the Santa Cruz group. When it became clear that something had happened to the expedition a decision was made to publish the journals he had transmitted home. This first Italian edition printed in Milan in 1815 as the first in a series of post-Cook voyages published by Sonzogno e Compagni precedes the first Italian edition of Cook and is testament to La Pérouse's enduring popularity on the continent. Very rare in any state this copy is untrimmed and complete in original wrappers. Included are the frontispiece portrait of La Pérouse often lacking all sixteen beautiful colored plates the folding map subscriber lists in both the first and fourth volumes and laid-in publisher's circulars in volumes three and four. A beautiful copy of one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers chip to upper outer corner of front wrapper of first volume slight chipping to extremities of spines. Light foxing to first few pages of first volume. An exceptional set. Untrimmed. In individual cloth chemises and cloth slipcase gilt leather label. FORBES 445. FERGUSON 609. McLAREN 25. HOWES L93. hardcover
1815ref. 57571Milano: Dalla Tipografia Sonzogno e Comp. 1815. Italian Edition of La Pérouse in Remarkable Original Condition The first Italian edition of La Pérouse's monumental journey here in beautiful original condition and rarely encountered thus. "La Pérouse's expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America.The charge to the expedition was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries peoples and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter.La Pérouse and his men did important geographical research including visits to Easter Island the first on-shore visit to Hawaii by Europeans Macao Formosa the Aleutian Islands Samoa Tonga and Australia.The voyage also included the first foreign scientific group ever to visit Alta California.La Pérouse sent dispatches back to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay." - Hill. La Pérouse sent back copies of his journals throughout the journey both overland across Russia and via British ships met at Botany Bay in the spring of 1788. After he left Australia his party was never seen again and it was not until the 1820s that the wrecks of his ships were discovered on a reef in the Santa Cruz group. When it became clear that something had happened to the expedition a decision was made to publish the journals he had transmitted home. This first Italian edition printed in Milan in 1815 as the first in a series of post-Cook voyages published by Sonzogno e Compagni precedes the first Italian edition of Cook and is testament to La Pérouse's enduring popularity on the continent. Very rare in any state this copy is untrimmed and complete in original wrappers. Included are the frontispiece portrait of La Pérouse often lacking all sixteen beautiful colored plates the folding map subscriber lists in both the first and fourth volumes and laid-in publisher's circulars in volumes three and four. A beautiful copy of one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration. 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling to wrappers chip to upper outer corner of front wrapper of first volume slight chipping to extremities of spines. Light foxing to first few pages of first volume. An exceptional set. Untrimmed. In individual cloth chemises and cloth slipcase gilt leather label. FORBES 445. FERGUSON 609. McLAREN 25. HOWES L93. hardcover books
1798ref. 000252Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world by La Pérouse who - in addition to Bougainville and Cook - contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific region. Without the two text volumes. Description: Contemporary quarter calf with marbled paper boards. Flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Quarto: 44 × 28.5 cm; unpag. 1 engr. frontispiece 1 engr. title page and 67 full-page copper-engraved plates thereof are: 37 plates and 30 maps 20 fold-outs. Ref.: Boucher i p. 149-54; Cox i 67; Sabin 3896 Condition: Binding a bit scuffed and with a few surface abrasions at edges. Light waterstains to the gutter of first few leaves. Contents occasionally somewhat soiled more noticeable in the first few leaves slight tanning at edges. Three small brown spots on plate 29 visible between plates 27-37. Lacking plates 1 map of the world and 36 male and female Partridge of California. Some offsetting from plates. Despite the occasional minor blemish a good copy. Notes: La Pérouse 1741-1788 a French naval officer and explorer was appointed in 1785 to lead a scientific expedition to explore the Pacific. The expedition stopped in Chile Hawaii Alaska California Mauritius Réunion Macau Japan Russia and Australia. However his journey ended tragically. In January 1788 he reached Botany Bay. He sent his final notes to France from there before sailing on towards Tonga in March. When no further reports arrived in France for a long period of time the first search expedition was launched in 1791. However it remained unsuccessful. It was not until 1826 that Peter Dillon an Irish sea captain proved that the island of Vanikoro was the site of the accident where the expedition's ships met a tragic end on the reef. The first English edition was published in two volumes in octavo format by John Stockdale in London in 1798. Two other translations were published by two different publishers in 1798 and 1799: J. Johnson's first edition appeared in 1798 and J. Robinson's in 1799. Regarding these editions Edward Cox writes in his Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel: "On the unexpected publication of this famous voyage at Paris in the previous year 1797 there was considerable competition among English publishers to bring out the English translation. Three different translations were made and published during 1798-99 and different engravers were employed for making the plates. Stockdale's appeared first in June 1798. Robinson's edition of 1799 is the most esteemed edition in English later editions being usually based on it." G. G. & J. Robinson hardcover
1799ref. 101564London: A. Hamilton for G. G. and J. Robinson J. Edwards and T. Payne. 1799. First thus two text volumes quarto later half-leather binding with gilt title labels and raised bands spines cloth sides Vol. I: pp. x lvi 539; Vol. II: pp. viii 531 plus index and errata page pp xiii. Engraved frontis portrait plate of La Perouse by Heath in first volume light water stain to upper plate and title page all edges untrimmed some unopened at top edge very light scattered foxing mostly to title pages minor scuffs to leather spine. The two text volumes without the Atlas volume complete and unabridged. Very good condition. The first quarto unabridged and "best edition" in English. A translation of La Perouse's scientific voyage around the world which departed France in 1785 and visited Chile and Hawaii Alaska California Japan Russia the South Pacific and Australia visiting Botany Bay in 1788 before sailing on and eventually discovered to have been wrecked in the Solomon Islands. A landmark work of exploration. 1st thus. Half leather. A. Hamilton for G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Edwards and T. Payne, hardcover
1791ref. 3590A Dijon: De l'Imprimerie de Capel 1791. First edition. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary manuscript certification at the end signed by two officials of the Département de la Côte-d'Or dated Dijon 23 avril 1791. Unbound as issued. In fine condition. First edition. Woodcut headpiece. Contemporary manuscript certification at the end signed by two officials of the Département de la Côte-d'Or dated Dijon 23 avril 1791. Unbound as issued. 3 1 blank p. The first formal document acknowledging fears of La Pérouse's disappearance in a rare provincial printing issued shortly after the royal decree. Very rare Dijon printing of the first formal decree acknowledging concern over the disappearance of La Pérouse's expedition. This decree issued by the Assemblée Nationale and promulgated in the name of Louis XVI on 25 February 1791 initiated the official search for La Boussole and L'Astrolabe last heard from in 1788 following their departure from Botany Bay. It instructed France's ambassadors consuls and agents abroad to solicit assistance from foreign powers and navigators-especially in the southern Pacific-"de faire toutes recherches des deux frégates Françoises La Boussole & L'Astrolabe. de même que toute perquisition qui pourroit constater leur existence ou naufrage." The decree also called for the arming of one or more vessels carrying scientists naturalists and artists tasked with both locating La Pérouse and conducting a broader exploratory mission "utile & avantageuse à la navigation à la géographie au commerce aux arts & aux sciences." This ultimately led to the voyage of Rear Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux 1791-1794. La Pérouse's expedition 1785-88 commissioned by Louis XVI and modelled in part on the voyages of Cook was the most ambitious French maritime expedition of the Enlightenment. Departing from Brest in August 1785 the two frigates visited South America including Chile Easter Island Alaska California Macao the Philippines and Australia Botany Bay sending reports and scientific observations until their disappearance after March 1788. Their fate remained a mystery until the wreckage was found decades later on Vanikoro Island. The Dijon edition printed by Capel and officially certified by the departmental administration is part of a coordinated provincial dissemination of the decree alongside other issues printed in Pau Orléans Grenoble Valenciennes Auxerre and Évreux. References: cf. Ferguson 106a Auxerre ed.; Kroepelien 710; McLaren 132 Valenciennes ed.; Horner Looking for La Pérouse pp. 4-6. . De l'Imprimerie de Capel unknown
1799ref. 16902London, Hamilton, 1799. 2 Bde. und Atlas. LII, 539; VIII, 522 S. 1 Porträt. (Atlas:) 1 Kupfertitel und 69 (davon 31 Karten) teils gefalt. Kupfertafeln. (Text:) 4°. Ldr. des 20. Jahrhunderts mit Rückenschildern (etw. bestoßen); (Atlas:) Fol. HLwd. des 20. Jahrhunderts mit aufgeklebtem Ldr.-Rücken des 19. Jahrhunderts (bestoßen). [9 Warenabbildungen]
1798ref. 53622Paris Plassin 1798. 8vo. and folio 44 x 30 cm. Textvolumes bound in 4 contemporary half calf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Tome-label on volume one eroded. Stamp on title-pages. 4LXVIII368;4414;316120 = Tables;4328 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Atlasvolume bound in matching hcalf. Spine gilt and rubbed. Lower compartment of spine with wear and tear. Engraved portrai of Pérouse as frontispiece. Engraved pictorial titlepage with cupids and naviogational instruments dessinée par Moreau le Jeune and 69 engraved maps plans and plates of which 32 are large folded engraved maps. Mild foxing to some parts of some maps occasionally mild dampstains to some plates marginal browning and some spotting. One map with a repair to folding. Second edition of the textvolumes the first appeared the year before 1797 and first edition of plates. 69 plates to the first 70 to the second."In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup Comte de la Perouse began preparations for an extensive sea voyage. His aim was to explore the Pacific regions of North and South America Asia and Australasia. The sponsor of the expedition was the French king Louis XVI who was inspired by Captain James Cook's Pacific voyages. Louis ordered the French expedition to show the world that France could also dominate in ocean exploration. The expedition consisted of two ships - La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. They carried a total of 225 crew officers and scientists. The ships left France in August 1785 and sailed south around Cape Horn. The voyage was expected to last four years. During the voyage La Perouse sent back regular reports to France. The expedition mapped coastlines and explored uncharted areas of ocean. The expedition's scientists also spent time onshore at various ports observing the habits and customs of local people and collecting natural history specimens. The expedition's progess until September 1787 was published by the French government as Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde La Perouse's voyage around the world. It was reprinted many times and translated into several languages. In 1791 when La Perouse had not returned to France or made any contact by dispatch the French government sent out a search party. It was commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux and consisted of two ships Recherche and Esperance. The complete disappearance of La Perouse caught the imagination of the European public. Songs stories and plays were written about the possible fate of the expedition including a popular play called Perouse or The desolate island. It was not until 1964 that the wreck of La Boussole was finally discovered on Vanikoro's reefs. At last the fate of La Perouse and his crew was known. The expedition is commemorated in the name of a Sydney suburb on the shores of Botany Bay - La Perouse." State Library of New South Wales Website.Sabin 38960. unknown
1798ref. 53622Paris, Plassin, 1798. 8vo. and folio (44 x 30) cm. Textvolumes bound in 4 contemporary half calf. Gilt spines with gilt lettering. Tome-label on volume one eroded. Stamp on title-pages. (4),LXVIII,368(4),414316,(120 = Tables)"(4),328 pp. A few scattered brownspots. Atlasvolume bound in matching hcalf. Spine gilt and rubbed. Lower compartment of spine with wear and tear. Engraved portrai of Pérouse as frontispiece. Engraved pictorial titlepage with cupids and naviogational instruments (dessinée par Moreau le Jeune) and 69 engraved maps, plans and plates of which 32 are large folded engraved maps. Mild foxing to some parts of some maps, occasionally mild dampstains to some plates, marginal browning and some spotting. One map with a repair to folding.
1807ref. PHO-1A Paris, Dépôt général des Cartes et Plans de la Marine et des Colonies, 1807 et De L’Imprimerie Impériale, 1808 RARE ENSEMBLE COMPLET en 3 volumes TEXTE ; 2 forts vol. in-4° ; (2)-LVI-704 pp.-32 pl. h.-t. repliées in-fine (I-XXXII)/(2)-VIII-692 pp.-1 pl. h.-t. Repliée sur papier bleuté , relié demi cuir , dos lisse avec titre et tomaison , tranches mouchetées , mouillure angulaire sur 7 planches, petites rousseurs sur les planches . ATLAS ; 1 volume grand in-folio (560x445) ,page de titre-1 fnch. (Table )-39 cartes et vues h.-t. , dont 29 à double page ,dressées par l'ingénieur hydrographe C. F. Beautemps Beaupré et gravées sur cuivre par E. Collin , relié demi cuir , dos lisse ,cachets répétés , petites rousseurs .
ref. 11090Paris: Chez Plassan Imprimeur-Libraire rue du Cimetiere Andre-des-Arcs no 10. 1798. No binding. Good. Second edition first octavo. Four octavo text volumes 205 x 125 mm. full contemporary mottled calf ornate gilt panelled boards spines with ornate gilt ruled band each compartment with further gilt decoration red calf gilt title labels to spines marbled endpapers with typographic half and full titles to each volume pp. 4 lxviii 368; 4 414; 316 148; 4 328 lower right corner of title to third volume torn away without loss; one folio atlas volume 465 x 310 mm. recent full cloth with calf gilt title label affixed to upper board with engraved portrait of La Pérouse after Tardieu engraved allegorical title-page by Moreau le Jeune 69 plates including 18 double page maps a folding world map 35 views and natural history plates 33 maps or coastal profiles all uncut in good condition. The first octavo edition of La Perouse's voyage one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the northwest American coast and the first scientific voyage to California. It is accompanied by the atlas volume published the previous year 1797. Jean-Francois de Galoup Comte de La Pérouse 1741-88 led a French scientific expedition to the Pacific in 1785-88. He was one of the most noted naval commanders and navigators in France and was selected by King Louis XVI to complete Captain James Cook's exploration of the Pacific especially regarding a possible north-west passage. In a rare moment of co-operation the British Admiralty furnished scientific equipment to measure variations in magnetic north and for determining longitude. The two corvettes called 'La Boussole' and 'L'Astrolabe' left Brest on 1 August 1785. Rounding Cape Horn they undertook repairs in Chile before heading to the Sandwich Islands Hawaii and Alaska. From here he turned south exploring the west coast of North America into California refitting again at Monterey. They then headed across the Pacific Ocean on 23 September 1786 reaching Macao on 1 January 1787. He then travelled to Manilla Taiwan and north along the Asian coastline towards Korea Japan and Kamchatka. There he received orders from Paris to head for Australia. De Lesseps was sent back to Paris with various reports and charts to date. He arrived at Botany Bay on 24 January 1788 and had good relations with the English First Fleet settlers who had only just arrived. They remained there for six weeks and left on 10 March never to be seen again. Fortunately for us La Perouse was meticulous in sending copies of his detailed logs and surveying via other ships as well as overland. When the French Government realised that it had been lost they decided to publish this account as in many other ways it is regarded as one the greatest French voyages of exploration. Despite attempts to discover its fate it was not until 1827 that the vessels were discovered shipwrecked on the island of Vanikoro one of the remote Santa Cruz Islands. The exact fate of the survivors has been the source of considerable speculation ever since. The largest contribution the expedition made was to the knowledge of the Asiatic coast of the Pacific. Especially the waters in and around Japan. The atlas includes superb charts of this and the west coast of North America including charts of San Francisco Bay Monterey Bay and San Diego. Also the first chart of Samoa. There are several views including the first of Maui in the Sandwich Islands. They are complimented by a series of botanical and ornithological engravings including the California quail. Provenance: Libraria de Antanao 2002; Juan and Peggy Rada Collection. Falk 1983 1797.5-13; Ferguson 1941-69 268; Fitzpatrick 1986 pp. 25-31; Hill 1974 p. 173-4; Howes 1962 L93; Howgego 2003 L20; refer Lada-Mocarski 1969 52; refer Nordenskiold Collection 1979 132; refer Phillips 1909- 688; Sabin 1868-1936 38960; refer Shirley 2004 Atlases G.Lpr 1a; Suarez Chez Plassan, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue du Cimetiere Andre-des-Arcs, no 10. 1798 unknown
1781ref. H1RDFKW35E6FAt sea 1781. Short manuscript note in ink on a small sheet of laid paper 12 x 13.5 cm. An exceptionally rare autograph note signed by the great French explorer La Pérouse. The extraordinary story and achievements of La Pérouse are well known and recounted in the handsome official account of his expedition. However because he was lost without trace mid-voyage manuscript material relating to his life is very rare indeed. In the present note La Pérouse asks that his boat be given an impressive 286 "aunes" of canvas which is needed on board. An "aune" is an old-fashioned French measure usually translated as ell or cubit: its length could vary but the normal French/Parisian aune was about 118 cm meaning that La Pérouse is in fact asking for about 340 metres of canvas. The sheer quantity of the request speaks to La Pérouse having written the note while in charge of a large vessel.The document is counter-signed and noted as "delivered" by one "Deletombe": it seems very likely that this is Philippe-André-Joseph de Létombe who arrived in the United States in 1781 and was the French Consul in Boston and a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson. If this identification is correct the note would possibly date from La Pérouse's cruising in the West Indies and along the coast to Hudson Bay in 1781 and 1782.With old folds clearly and legibly written and docketed; in very good condition. unknown
