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[FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre, comte de Claret (1738-1810)]. Dcouvertes des Franois en 1768 & 1769, dans le sud-est de la Nouvelle Guine. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1790.
4o, 12 engraved plates including 9 maps. Contemporary half calf (worn). Provenance: Louis-Isidore Dupperey (1786-1865), circumnavigator (notes and inscriptions inside front cover, autograph manuscript bound in at end [see below]).
FIRST EDITION. This important work, which established the exact location of the Solomon Islands, confirmed the observations of Bougainville and Jean de Surville. Fleurieu showed that the islands that were discovered in 1567 by Mendaa were the same islands that were later claimed to be discovered by Carteret in 1767, by Bougainville in 1768 and by Shortland in 1788. The work, of which an English translation appeared in 1791, also contains compilations of various published and unpublished accounts of Spanish and English explorers in the Pacific, including de Queirs, Mourelle, Carteret, Shortland and Captain Cook.
IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, from the library of the famous French explorer Louis Isidore Duperrey, author of the Voyage autour du monde...sur la corvette...la Coquille. Bound in at the end of the work is a 22-page manuscript concerning natural magnetism, as well as manuscript copies of reports and correspondence between the captain Le Dru and Laprouse, containing their own observations on magnetism during their travels in the South Seas.
4o, 12 engraved plates including 9 maps. Contemporary half calf (worn). Provenance: Louis-Isidore Dupperey (1786-1865), circumnavigator (notes and inscriptions inside front cover, autograph manuscript bound in at end [see below]).
FIRST EDITION. This important work, which established the exact location of the Solomon Islands, confirmed the observations of Bougainville and Jean de Surville. Fleurieu showed that the islands that were discovered in 1567 by Mendaa were the same islands that were later claimed to be discovered by Carteret in 1767, by Bougainville in 1768 and by Shortland in 1788. The work, of which an English translation appeared in 1791, also contains compilations of various published and unpublished accounts of Spanish and English explorers in the Pacific, including de Queirs, Mourelle, Carteret, Shortland and Captain Cook.
IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY, from the library of the famous French explorer Louis Isidore Duperrey, author of the Voyage autour du monde...sur la corvette...la Coquille. Bound in at the end of the work is a 22-page manuscript concerning natural magnetism, as well as manuscript copies of reports and correspondence between the captain Le Dru and Laprouse, containing their own observations on magnetism during their travels in the South Seas.