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LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François (1741-1788?). A Voyage Round the World, Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799.
The first complete English edition, from the library of Queen Charlotte and rebound in leather recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina. This edition of La Pérouse’s voyage is described by the translator as “one of the most magnificent in its conception” among travel books. Forbes 311; Hill 975; Howes L-93b; see Lada-Mocarski 52; Wickersham 6612a.
Two text volumes, quarto (290 x 232mm) and one atlas volume, folio (416 x 278mm). Text: engraved frontispiece; atlas: engraved title, 69 engraved plates, 1 of which is a folding map handcolored in outline (text: without half-titles). Rebound in 18th-century diced russia, recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina, by Courtland Benson. Provenance: Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland (1744-1818; note on flyleaf) – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777-1848; bookplate) – Donald A. Heald Rare Books.
The first complete English edition, from the library of Queen Charlotte and rebound in leather recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina. This edition of La Pérouse’s voyage is described by the translator as “one of the most magnificent in its conception” among travel books. Forbes 311; Hill 975; Howes L-93b; see Lada-Mocarski 52; Wickersham 6612a.
Two text volumes, quarto (290 x 232mm) and one atlas volume, folio (416 x 278mm). Text: engraved frontispiece; atlas: engraved title, 69 engraved plates, 1 of which is a folding map handcolored in outline (text: without half-titles). Rebound in 18th-century diced russia, recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina, by Courtland Benson. Provenance: Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland (1744-1818; note on flyleaf) – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777-1848; bookplate) – Donald A. Heald Rare Books.