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JULES SEBASTIEN CESAR DUMONT D'URVILLE (1790-1842)
Voyage de la corvette Astrolabe Atlas Bottanique. Paris: J. Tastu, 1823. 2° (500 x 340mm). 80 engraved botanical plates, including 7 coloured, each with the official Voyage de l'Astrolabe blind-stamp, engraved vignette to letterpress title. (Light spotting throughout, two library stamps to title-page, not touching text, neat pencil annotations to lower margin of title-page and list of plates.) Original publisher's decorative boards, morocco label to spine lettered in gilt (rebacked, inner hinges strengthened, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Eduardo Obejero Urquiza (bookplate) -- Benedictine Monastery of Buenos Aires (library stamp) -- Pedro Chutro (library stamp).
FIRST EDITION OF THE DETAILED BOTANICAL ATLAS FROM THE Astrolabe's FIRST VOYAGE with 41 plates illustrating the flora of New Zealand and a further 39 plates of the seeded plants collected during Dumont d'Urville's first expedition. Sailing in the vessel in which he had served as second-in-command on Duperrey's voyage of exploration, and now renamed after La Pérouse's vessel L'Astrolabe, Dumont d'Urville set out for the Pacific in 1826 with the aim of augmenting the mass of scientific data acquired during the Duperrey expedition. Over the next three years he and his crew carried out detailed surveys throughout the Pacific, whilst also confirming Captain Dillon's claim that La Pérouse's Astrolabe had been wrecked in the Santa Cruz Islands, finally solving the mystery of the disappearance of the great French explorer and his crew. For the expedition's considerable geographic and scientific discoveries, Dunmore called it 'the most important French expedition since La Pérouse'. Hill 504; Ferguson, 1341; Hocken p.38; Sabin 21210; Howgego II, D34; Dunmore French Explorers of the Pacific II, 29.
Voyage de la corvette Astrolabe Atlas Bottanique. Paris: J. Tastu, 1823. 2° (500 x 340mm). 80 engraved botanical plates, including 7 coloured, each with the official Voyage de l'Astrolabe blind-stamp, engraved vignette to letterpress title. (Light spotting throughout, two library stamps to title-page, not touching text, neat pencil annotations to lower margin of title-page and list of plates.) Original publisher's decorative boards, morocco label to spine lettered in gilt (rebacked, inner hinges strengthened, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Eduardo Obejero Urquiza (bookplate) -- Benedictine Monastery of Buenos Aires (library stamp) -- Pedro Chutro (library stamp).
FIRST EDITION OF THE DETAILED BOTANICAL ATLAS FROM THE Astrolabe's FIRST VOYAGE with 41 plates illustrating the flora of New Zealand and a further 39 plates of the seeded plants collected during Dumont d'Urville's first expedition. Sailing in the vessel in which he had served as second-in-command on Duperrey's voyage of exploration, and now renamed after La Pérouse's vessel L'Astrolabe, Dumont d'Urville set out for the Pacific in 1826 with the aim of augmenting the mass of scientific data acquired during the Duperrey expedition. Over the next three years he and his crew carried out detailed surveys throughout the Pacific, whilst also confirming Captain Dillon's claim that La Pérouse's Astrolabe had been wrecked in the Santa Cruz Islands, finally solving the mystery of the disappearance of the great French explorer and his crew. For the expedition's considerable geographic and scientific discoveries, Dunmore called it 'the most important French expedition since La Pérouse'. Hill 504; Ferguson, 1341; Hocken p.38; Sabin 21210; Howgego II, D34; Dunmore French Explorers of the Pacific II, 29.