JEAN FRANÇOIS DE GALAUP COMTE DE LA PÉROUSE (1741-1788) Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M.L.A. Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimerie de la République, 1797. 5 volumes including atlas, 4° (310 x 234mm) and 2° (610 x 455mm). Text volumes: engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles, colophon leaves in vols I-III and final blank leaf in vol. IV; atlas volume: engraved title, and 69 engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting, atlas vol. with a few short marginal tears, some repaired.) Modern red roan-backed boards in a period style, flat spines gilt, gilt citron morocco lettering-pieces, uncut (extremities very lightly rubbed), modern morocco-backed cloth boxes. FIRST EDITION. A FRESH, UNCUT SET OF 'ONE OF THE FINEST NARRATIVES OF MARITIME EXPLORATION EVER WRITTEN', deserving 'a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the 18th century' (Howell). The two frigates Astrolabe and Boussole left France under La Pérouse's command in 1785 to explore the Pacific, particularly the regions unexamined by Captain Cook, and the West Coast of North America. La Pérouse visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. His was the first French expedition to visit Alaska, and the first non-Spanish European expedition to stay at the Spanish settlements in California. 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 the superb atlas and its mapping, particularly of the Alaskan and Californian coasts, and the maps include San Diego, Monterey, and the whole of the Northwest coast. Hawaiian National Bibliography notes that the atlas was issued in both regular- and thick-paper copies, and that the regular-paper copies are normally trimmed (measuring 575 x 420mm) and the thick-paper copies measure 620 x 455mm when uncut; the maps in the present copy of the atlas (which are uncut and measure 610 x 455mm) appear to be from the thick-paper issue. Brunet III, 828; Ferguson 251; Hawaiian National Bibliography 272; Hill (2004) 972; Sabin 38960; Streeter sale VI, 3493. (5)
JEAN FRANÇOIS DE GALAUP COMTE DE LA PÉROUSE (1741-1788) Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, et rédigé par M.L.A. Millet-Mureau . Paris: Imprimerie de la République, 1797. 5 volumes including atlas, 4° (310 x 234mm) and 2° (610 x 455mm). Text volumes: engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles, colophon leaves in vols I-III and final blank leaf in vol. IV; atlas volume: engraved title, and 69 engraved plates. (Occasional light spotting, atlas vol. with a few short marginal tears, some repaired.) Modern red roan-backed boards in a period style, flat spines gilt, gilt citron morocco lettering-pieces, uncut (extremities very lightly rubbed), modern morocco-backed cloth boxes. FIRST EDITION. A FRESH, UNCUT SET OF 'ONE OF THE FINEST NARRATIVES OF MARITIME EXPLORATION EVER WRITTEN', deserving 'a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the 18th century' (Howell). The two frigates Astrolabe and Boussole left France under La Pérouse's command in 1785 to explore the Pacific, particularly the regions unexamined by Captain Cook, and the West Coast of North America. La Pérouse visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. His was the first French expedition to visit Alaska, and the first non-Spanish European expedition to stay at the Spanish settlements in California. 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 the superb atlas and its mapping, particularly of the Alaskan and Californian coasts, and the maps include San Diego, Monterey, and the whole of the Northwest coast. Hawaiian National Bibliography notes that the atlas was issued in both regular- and thick-paper copies, and that the regular-paper copies are normally trimmed (measuring 575 x 420mm) and the thick-paper copies measure 620 x 455mm when uncut; the maps in the present copy of the atlas (which are uncut and measure 610 x 455mm) appear to be from the thick-paper issue. Brunet III, 828; Ferguson 251; Hawaiian National Bibliography 272; Hill (2004) 972; Sabin 38960; Streeter sale VI, 3493. (5)
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