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ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1855). Promenade Autour du Monde pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820,… Atlas Historique et Pittoresque. Paris: LeBlanc, 1822.
First edition Arago's Atlas volume containing some of the most realistic expedition illustrations of their time, well outside the classical rendition given to Pacific islanders by Bartolozzi in his interpretation of the drawings of Webber and Hodges on Cook's voyages. Arago sailed as expedition artist to Louis de Freycinet’s circumnavigation on board Uranie, which called at Timor, New Guinea, the Carolines, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands, where she was wrecked. The Atlas accompanied the two text volumes of Arago’s Promenade... describing the voyage, and largely depicts the peoples encountered, including some unpleasant aspects of Hawaiian culture. Ferguson 850; Forbes 537; Hill 28.
Folio (345 x 256mm). List of plates, route map and 25 plates lithographed by Langlumé (some light variable spotting, heaviest to plate 11). Modern blue morocco (extremities faintly rubbed).
First edition Arago's Atlas volume containing some of the most realistic expedition illustrations of their time, well outside the classical rendition given to Pacific islanders by Bartolozzi in his interpretation of the drawings of Webber and Hodges on Cook's voyages. Arago sailed as expedition artist to Louis de Freycinet’s circumnavigation on board Uranie, which called at Timor, New Guinea, the Carolines, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tierra del Fuego and the Falklands, where she was wrecked. The Atlas accompanied the two text volumes of Arago’s Promenade... describing the voyage, and largely depicts the peoples encountered, including some unpleasant aspects of Hawaiian culture. Ferguson 850; Forbes 537; Hill 28.
Folio (345 x 256mm). List of plates, route map and 25 plates lithographed by Langlumé (some light variable spotting, heaviest to plate 11). Modern blue morocco (extremities faintly rubbed).
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