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[DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César, le Comte (1790-1842). Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe Histoire du Voyage. Paris: J. Tastu, 1830-1833.]
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[DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César, le Comte (1790-1842). Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe Histoire du Voyage. Paris: J. Tastu, 1830-1833.]
Atlas (plates only), 2° (535 x 346 mm). Lithographed portrait of Dumont d'Urville, 8 maps (one hand-colored, 6 folding), 239 views and plates after Louis-Auguste de Sainson, Édouard Paris and Bartélemy Lauvergne. The majority of the plates are after de Sainson (the expedition's official artist or "Dessinateur") and show ethnological artifacts and portraits, scenes from the daily life of indigenous peoples and views of ports and anchorages, including Sydney, Hobart, Cape Town and Saint Helena (includes 141(bis), 144(bis), 157(bis) and 240(bis) and without plates 171, 179, 196, 197, 201, 222, 223, 238 probably reserved for the 8 unnumbered maps as issued). (Some occasional minor mostly marginal staining, a few plates with short marginal tears.) Modern cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION of the plates for the atlas of D'Urville's voyage in the Astrolabe. This important voyage was one in a great series undertaken by the French government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for scientific and political purposes. Led by Jules Dumont d'Urville, its intention "was to gain additional information about the principal groups of islands in the Pacific and to augment the mass of scientific data acquired by Louis Duperrey. The Astrolabe sailed south, around the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Port Jackson. Proceeding to New Zealand, its coast, especially the southern part of Cook Strait, was surveyed with great care. Tonga and parts of the Fiji Archipeligo were explored, then New Britain, New Guinea, Amboina, Tasmania, Vanikoro, Guam and Java. The return home was by way of Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. Huge amounts of scientific materials were collected and published" (Hill). Borba de Moraes I:273; Ellis, Early Prints of New Zealand (1978) pp.43; Ferguson 1341; Hill 504.
Atlas (plates only), 2° (535 x 346 mm). Lithographed portrait of Dumont d'Urville, 8 maps (one hand-colored, 6 folding), 239 views and plates after Louis-Auguste de Sainson, Édouard Paris and Bartélemy Lauvergne. The majority of the plates are after de Sainson (the expedition's official artist or "Dessinateur") and show ethnological artifacts and portraits, scenes from the daily life of indigenous peoples and views of ports and anchorages, including Sydney, Hobart, Cape Town and Saint Helena (includes 141(bis), 144(bis), 157(bis) and 240(bis) and without plates 171, 179, 196, 197, 201, 222, 223, 238 probably reserved for the 8 unnumbered maps as issued). (Some occasional minor mostly marginal staining, a few plates with short marginal tears.) Modern cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION of the plates for the atlas of D'Urville's voyage in the Astrolabe. This important voyage was one in a great series undertaken by the French government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for scientific and political purposes. Led by Jules Dumont d'Urville, its intention "was to gain additional information about the principal groups of islands in the Pacific and to augment the mass of scientific data acquired by Louis Duperrey. The Astrolabe sailed south, around the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Port Jackson. Proceeding to New Zealand, its coast, especially the southern part of Cook Strait, was surveyed with great care. Tonga and parts of the Fiji Archipeligo were explored, then New Britain, New Guinea, Amboina, Tasmania, Vanikoro, Guam and Java. The return home was by way of Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. Huge amounts of scientific materials were collected and published" (Hill). Borba de Moraes I:273; Ellis, Early Prints of New Zealand (1978) pp.43; Ferguson 1341; Hill 504.