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[JEAN FRANÇOIS GALAUP DE LA PÉROUSE] JACQUES JULIEN HOUTON DE LABILLARDIERE (1755-1834)
Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800]. 2 text volumes, 4° (296 x 222 mm) and 2° atlas volume (564 x 400 mm). Half-title and portrait frontispiece, one of these before letters, in each text volume, atlas with engraved title, folding engraved world map, 105 engraved plates: ie. 43 engravings in multiple states [3 states: 2-8, 25-30, 34-36, 41-44; 2 states: 9-24, 31-33, 37-41]. Without final blanks. (A few text leaves lightly browned, marginal tear with slight loss at 2X1 of vol.1, frontispiece in vol.2 window mounted, atlas with scattered mostly marginal spotting.) 19th-century polished calf, atlas half calf, gilt, by F. Bedford (text vols. with light rubbing, atlas volume extremities rubbed). Text in modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: Vernon (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH ALL THE VIEWS AND PORTRAITS IN THREE STATES, and all the natural history and objects in two states. 13 of the botanical plates are after or finished by Pierre Joseph Redouté. This important voyage in search of La Pérouse serves as the completion of La Pérouse's own narrative (Hill). The expedition under the command of Dentrecasteaux surveyed the coasts of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the north coast of New Guinea, south-west coast of Australia, the Tonga and other islands in the vain hope of recovering some relics of La Pérouse's expedition. The shattered fragments of La Pérouse's frigates were eventually found thirty-nine years later on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz Islands in Melanesia. The political squabbles of the French Revolutionary government caused a split in the expedition. Royalists joined the Dutch on Java while the Republicans, together with the expedition's charts, journals and natural history specimens were captured by the British Navy. At the urging of Sir Joseph Banks, these were later delivered to France under a flag of truce. The plates in the atlas depict views, the natives of the Admiralty Islands, Tasmanis, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands and New Caledonia, native implements and canoes, birds, plants, etc. The text, also simultaneously issued in octavo, is here in quarto format. Brunet III, 711 ('Ouvrage estimé'); Ferguson 308; Hill 2004, 954; Sabin 22671.
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Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800]. 2 text volumes, 4° (296 x 222 mm) and 2° atlas volume (564 x 400 mm). Half-title and portrait frontispiece, one of these before letters, in each text volume, atlas with engraved title, folding engraved world map, 105 engraved plates: ie. 43 engravings in multiple states [3 states: 2-8, 25-30, 34-36, 41-44; 2 states: 9-24, 31-33, 37-41]. Without final blanks. (A few text leaves lightly browned, marginal tear with slight loss at 2X1 of vol.1, frontispiece in vol.2 window mounted, atlas with scattered mostly marginal spotting.) 19th-century polished calf, atlas half calf, gilt, by F. Bedford (text vols. with light rubbing, atlas volume extremities rubbed). Text in modern morocco backed cloth box. Provenance: Vernon (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH ALL THE VIEWS AND PORTRAITS IN THREE STATES, and all the natural history and objects in two states. 13 of the botanical plates are after or finished by Pierre Joseph Redouté. This important voyage in search of La Pérouse serves as the completion of La Pérouse's own narrative (Hill). The expedition under the command of Dentrecasteaux surveyed the coasts of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the north coast of New Guinea, south-west coast of Australia, the Tonga and other islands in the vain hope of recovering some relics of La Pérouse's expedition. The shattered fragments of La Pérouse's frigates were eventually found thirty-nine years later on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz Islands in Melanesia. The political squabbles of the French Revolutionary government caused a split in the expedition. Royalists joined the Dutch on Java while the Republicans, together with the expedition's charts, journals and natural history specimens were captured by the British Navy. At the urging of Sir Joseph Banks, these were later delivered to France under a flag of truce. The plates in the atlas depict views, the natives of the Admiralty Islands, Tasmanis, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands and New Caledonia, native implements and canoes, birds, plants, etc. The text, also simultaneously issued in octavo, is here in quarto format. Brunet III, 711 ('Ouvrage estimé'); Ferguson 308; Hill 2004, 954; Sabin 22671.
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