LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, Comte de. Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publicé conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et réidé par... Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimeries de la République, An V (1796-1797).
LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, Comte de. Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publicé conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et réidé par... Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimeries de la République, An V (1796-1797). 5 volumes: comprising 4 volumes text, 4 o (301 x 216 mm) and atlas 2 o (560 x 438 mm). Half-titles. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Pérouse in the first text volume (a duplicate mounted as frontispiece in the atlas) and 70 engraved plates in the atlas, including engraved title-page (some dust soiling along edges, some pale dampstaining at lower right corner towards end, a few short tears along folds). Text bound in 20th-century half calf, marbled boards; atlas in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt (some minor rubbing). Provenance : Admiralty Library (cancelled ink stamps and manuscript shelf numbers on titles of text volumes). "ONE OF THE FINEST NARRATIVES OF MARITIME EXPLORATION EVER WRITTEN" (Howell) FIRST EDITION. The two frigates Astrolabe and Boussole under La Pérouse's command left France in 1785 to explore the Pacific, particularly the regions unexamined by Captain Cook and the West Coast of North America. This was the first French expedition to visit Alaska and the first European non-Spanish expedition to stay at the Spanish settlements in California. La Pérouse also visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. In 1788 he sailed from Botany Bay and was lost at sea. Although a number of missions were dispatched in an effort to find La Pérouse, nothing was discovered until thirty nine years later when the wrecks of his ships were found on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz islands of Melanesia. The voyage of La Pérouse is especially regarded for its superb mapping of the Alaskan and Californian coasts. Maps include San Diego, Monterey, and the whole of the Northwest coast. "It is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the 18th century" (Howell cat. 50, Richard Reed's essay). Ferguson 251; Hill 972; Lada-Mocarski 52; Sabin 38960; Smith 2109; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 596; Streeter sale VI:3493; Wickersham 6611; Zamorano 80 , 49. (5)
LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, Comte de. Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publicé conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et réidé par... Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimeries de la République, An V (1796-1797).
LA PÉROUSE, Jean François de Galaup, Comte de. Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publicé conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et réidé par... Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimeries de la République, An V (1796-1797). 5 volumes: comprising 4 volumes text, 4 o (301 x 216 mm) and atlas 2 o (560 x 438 mm). Half-titles. Engraved frontispiece portrait of La Pérouse in the first text volume (a duplicate mounted as frontispiece in the atlas) and 70 engraved plates in the atlas, including engraved title-page (some dust soiling along edges, some pale dampstaining at lower right corner towards end, a few short tears along folds). Text bound in 20th-century half calf, marbled boards; atlas in contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt (some minor rubbing). Provenance : Admiralty Library (cancelled ink stamps and manuscript shelf numbers on titles of text volumes). "ONE OF THE FINEST NARRATIVES OF MARITIME EXPLORATION EVER WRITTEN" (Howell) FIRST EDITION. The two frigates Astrolabe and Boussole under La Pérouse's command left France in 1785 to explore the Pacific, particularly the regions unexamined by Captain Cook and the West Coast of North America. This was the first French expedition to visit Alaska and the first European non-Spanish expedition to stay at the Spanish settlements in California. La Pérouse also visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. In 1788 he sailed from Botany Bay and was lost at sea. Although a number of missions were dispatched in an effort to find La Pérouse, nothing was discovered until thirty nine years later when the wrecks of his ships were found on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz islands of Melanesia. The voyage of La Pérouse is especially regarded for its superb mapping of the Alaskan and Californian coasts. Maps include San Diego, Monterey, and the whole of the Northwest coast. "It is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the 18th century" (Howell cat. 50, Richard Reed's essay). Ferguson 251; Hill 972; Lada-Mocarski 52; Sabin 38960; Smith 2109; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 596; Streeter sale VI:3493; Wickersham 6611; Zamorano 80 , 49. (5)
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