PRON, Franois (1775-1810), Louis-Claude Descaulles de FREYCINET (1779-1842) and others. Voyages de dcouvertes aux Terres Australes, execut par ordre de sa Majest L'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes Le Gographe, Le Naturaliste et la goelette La Casuarina, pendant les annes 1800[-]... 1804. Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807-11-15-16. 3 vols. 4o (290 x 217 mm) text, 3 vols. 2o (340 x 250, 330 x 255, 560 x 445 mm) atlas. Half-title in each text vol., 88 engraved charts, coastal profiles, portraits, narrative scenes and natural history plates, 23 colored; many of the charts double-page or folding (Atlas Historique Part II dampstained at lower portions, slightly affecting folding charts, Navigation et Gographie atlas with minor dampstain at upper inner and outer corners toward the end of the volume, plate nos. 13 and 19 cockled; some text leaves browned.) Text vols. in contemporary calf gilt, atlas vols. in half calf (the large atlas is in a modern binding to match, all the atlas bindings with discreet repairs). FIRST EDITION. Ferguson 449 and 603; Hill, p.229. (6)