YEAR PUBLISHED: 1797
Atlas du Voyage de La Pérouse with Volumes; Voyage de La Pérouse Autour du Monde, Publié Conformément au Décret du 22 Avril 1791 et Rédige par M. L. A. Milet Mureau
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LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup (1741-1788?). Voyage de La Pérouse Autour du Monde. Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, 1797, with accompanying Atlas du Voyage de La Pérouse.
La Perouse
Four text volumes, quarto (9.5" x 11.75") and one atlas volume, folio (17" x 23.25"). Text: engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, some occasional scattered light spotting and browning, generally in exceptional condition. Atlas: engraved title, 69 engravings comprising large double-page and folding world map, 20 double-page and, 49 single-page maps, views and plates (light marginal wear/soiling to plate edges). Folio atlas and texts in modern binding in ¾ English calfskin, with handmade Prussian blue paste paper sides, label, and linear gilt tooling.
A beautiful and striking first edition of “one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written’ (Howell). Leaving Brest in August 1785, La Pérouse commanded La Astrolabe and L'Boussole on a voyage of discovery into the Pacific. He and his ships disappeared at sea after setting out from Botany Bay in 1788; one of the ships, L'Astrolabe was discovered wrecked on the reef of Vanikoro island in the Solomon islands in 1826, the other, La Boussole, in 1986.
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