DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magellan, Tasman (...). Paris, L. Tenré, 1834-2 vol., lge 8vo: viii-pp. (some sl. spotting throughout). Quarter calf (corners bumped), gilt spine on 4 raised bands (joints rubbed, spine det. in vol. I), marbl. edges. Good copy. First edition of this selection of important voyages of pacific discovery, compiled by Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842). Steel engr. ill.: frontisp. in each vol. showing 8 portraits of famous seafarers, 6 fold. maps (Hawaii, Tahiti, world map, the Pacific, Tonga, New Zealand) and many (250+) pl., mostly 2 to a page, depicting exotic landscapes and scenes, indigenous people and buildings, after the drawings L.A. De Sainson made during Dumont d'Urville's celebrated voyage in The Astrolabe (1826-1830-1834). Ref. Brunet II:- Bn Opale plus. Joined: 4 other works of voyage and discovery: Grasset-Saint-Saveur, J. - Tableaux des principaux peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amérique et les découvertes des capitaines Cook, (...). Paris, chez l'auteur, an VI [1798], 5 parts in 1 vol., sm. 4to, green half shagreen. With 4 fold. tables ("division générale"), but lacking the 5 engr. col. fold. tables depicting indigenous people and their costume. Ref. Colas - Cohen - Bn-Opale plus. - Breton, E. - Monuments de tous les peuples, décrits et dessinés d'après les documents les plus modernes. Paris, Librairie Ethnographique (T. I); Bruxelles, Librairie Historique-Artistique (T. II), (T. II)-(T. I), 2 vol., 8vo, half shagreen. Mixed edition set with (full-page wood engr. pl. and numerous ill. in text. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Hombron, M. - Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs, coup d'oeil autour du monde (...). Paris, Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, s.d. [1847], 8vo (some spotting), half shagreen, a.e.g. Vol. II only. Ill. with full-page pl. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Charton, E. - Voyageurs anciens et modernes. Paris, Magasin pittoresque, 1854-4 vol., 8vo, quarter shagreen, marbl. edges. Full set with ca. b.w. ill. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. (vol.)
DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magellan, Tasman (...). Paris, L. Tenré, 1834-2 vol., lge 8vo: viii-pp. (some sl. spotting throughout). Quarter calf (corners bumped), gilt spine on 4 raised bands (joints rubbed, spine det. in vol. I), marbl. edges. Good copy. First edition of this selection of important voyages of pacific discovery, compiled by Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842). Steel engr. ill.: frontisp. in each vol. showing 8 portraits of famous seafarers, 6 fold. maps (Hawaii, Tahiti, world map, the Pacific, Tonga, New Zealand) and many (250+) pl., mostly 2 to a page, depicting exotic landscapes and scenes, indigenous people and buildings, after the drawings L.A. De Sainson made during Dumont d'Urville's celebrated voyage in The Astrolabe (1826-1830-1834). Ref. Brunet II:- Bn Opale plus. Joined: 4 other works of voyage and discovery: Grasset-Saint-Saveur, J. - Tableaux des principaux peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amérique et les découvertes des capitaines Cook, (...). Paris, chez l'auteur, an VI [1798], 5 parts in 1 vol., sm. 4to, green half shagreen. With 4 fold. tables ("division générale"), but lacking the 5 engr. col. fold. tables depicting indigenous people and their costume. Ref. Colas - Cohen - Bn-Opale plus. - Breton, E. - Monuments de tous les peuples, décrits et dessinés d'après les documents les plus modernes. Paris, Librairie Ethnographique (T. I); Bruxelles, Librairie Historique-Artistique (T. II), (T. II)-(T. I), 2 vol., 8vo, half shagreen. Mixed edition set with (full-page wood engr. pl. and numerous ill. in text. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Hombron, M. - Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs, coup d'oeil autour du monde (...). Paris, Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, s.d. [1847], 8vo (some spotting), half shagreen, a.e.g. Vol. II only. Ill. with full-page pl. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Charton, E. - Voyageurs anciens et modernes. Paris, Magasin pittoresque, 1854-4 vol., 8vo, quarter shagreen, marbl. edges. Full set with ca. b.w. ill. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. (vol.)
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