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LA PEROUSE (JEAN FRANCOIS GALAUP, COMTE DE): A voyage round the world performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. De La Perouse,, 3 vols including atlas, half-titles in text vols, atlas vol. with engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved allegorical title and 68 engraved plates, errata leaf at end of vol. II (minor paper flaw in head-margin R3), text vols. contemporary diced russia, cover with gilt-line borders, atlas contemporary marbled paper boards, uniform new calf spines with gilt-stamped red morocco labels, atlas with new calf corners, contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Snodgrass, 4to and folio (43.5 x 28 cm. ), G.G. and J. Robinson, London 1799
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH
Ferguson 288, Hill p. 174 'an unabridged translation into English. This edition is usually considered to be the best one in English and is now an extremely rare work'.
La Perouse was the first to navigate and chart the Japan Sea and La Perouse Strait. At Kamchatka he received instructions to monitor British intentions in Australia. He sailed for New South Wales via Samoa, where he discovered the islands of Savaii, Manono, and Apolima in 1787. He reached Botany Bay in January 1788, hours after Governor Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet. The final documents used in compiling this work were forwarded to France by Governor Phillip. The plates include 20 double page folding maps, views of the Phillipines, Easter Island, the North West Coast of America, ornithology. La Perouse's expedition left Botany Bay and was never seen again.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN ENGLISH
Ferguson 288, Hill p. 174 'an unabridged translation into English. This edition is usually considered to be the best one in English and is now an extremely rare work'.
La Perouse was the first to navigate and chart the Japan Sea and La Perouse Strait. At Kamchatka he received instructions to monitor British intentions in Australia. He sailed for New South Wales via Samoa, where he discovered the islands of Savaii, Manono, and Apolima in 1787. He reached Botany Bay in January 1788, hours after Governor Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet. The final documents used in compiling this work were forwarded to France by Governor Phillip. The plates include 20 double page folding maps, views of the Phillipines, Easter Island, the North West Coast of America, ornithology. La Perouse's expedition left Botany Bay and was never seen again.
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