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LESUEUR, Charles & Nicholas PETIT. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté par Ordre de S. M. l' Empereur et Roi ... Atlas. [Paris: 1807-11]. Part I of Atlas volume only. 2° (350 x 265mm). 40 engraved plates, 2 folding, many hand-coloured (lacks general folding map, one folding plate cleanly torn at plate mark, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, some tracing to tissue guards). 19th-century tan sheep-backed patterned boards (extremities rubbed). cf. Ferguson 449; Wantrup 79a.
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LESUEUR, Charles & Nicholas PETIT. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté par Ordre de S. M. l' Empereur et Roi ... Atlas. [Paris: 1807-11]. Part I of Atlas volume only. 2° (350 x 265mm). 40 engraved plates, 2 folding, many hand-coloured (lacks general folding map, one folding plate cleanly torn at plate mark, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, some tracing to tissue guards). 19th-century tan sheep-backed patterned boards (extremities rubbed). cf. Ferguson 449; Wantrup 79a.

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LESUEUR, Charles & Nicholas PETIT. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes exécuté par Ordre de S. M. l' Empereur et Roi ... Atlas. [Paris: 1807-11]. Part I of Atlas volume only. 2° (350 x 265mm). 40 engraved plates, 2 folding, many hand-coloured (lacks general folding map, one folding plate cleanly torn at plate mark, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, some tracing to tissue guards). 19th-century tan sheep-backed patterned boards (extremities rubbed). cf. Ferguson 449; Wantrup 79a.
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