![LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, Paris: H. J. Jansen, An VIII [1800]. 3 volumes, 2 text volumes 4° (268 x 212mm)., atlas volume 2° (575 x 417mm). Half title in volume I & II, engraved title in atlas volume, double-page map and 43 plates. (A few margins in the text vols. lightly waterstained, light marginal spotting, a few plates of atlas vol. with wormhole or track in inner margin, a few plates lightly waterstained, some light spotting.) Text volumes in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (rebacked with old spines relaid), atlas volume in 19th-century half morocco.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CSK/2004_CSK_09967_0178_000(085612).jpg?w=1)
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LABILLARDIERE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du Voyage à la recherche de la Pérouse, Paris: H. J. Jansen, An VIII [1800]. 3 volumes, 2 text volumes 4° (268 x 212mm)., atlas volume 2° (575 x 417mm). Half title in volume I & II, engraved title in atlas volume, double-page map and 43 plates. (A few margins in the text vols. lightly waterstained, light marginal spotting, a few plates of atlas vol. with wormhole or track in inner margin, a few plates lightly waterstained, some light spotting.) Text volumes in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards (rebacked with old spines relaid), atlas volume in 19th-century half morocco.
FIRST EDITION with the text in quarto format (the text was simultaneously issued in octavo). "The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists into the productions of countries visited were of special value" (Ferguson I, 307). (3)
FIRST EDITION with the text in quarto format (the text was simultaneously issued in octavo). "The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists into the productions of countries visited were of special value" (Ferguson I, 307). (3)
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