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LA PEROUSE

Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde

Chez Plassan, à Paris 1798, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), relié.

Second edition and the first in-8, after the original in-4 published in 1797 Without the atlas. Ultimately in Volume 3, tables Road Astrolabe and Boussole.Demi brown sheepskin period. Smooth spine decorated horseshoes cold grotesque and wheels. Rubbed dishes. Little work to low margin of Volume II of the first leaves, becoming one of the following holes. A pale wetness on the last 30 pages of the second volume. Good copy, frais.En 1784 Louis XVI and the Minister of Marine think an expedition around the world to complete the unfinished discoveries of James Cook in the Pacific Ocean, and choose La Perouse for the command of this circumnavigation with two frigates, Compass and Astrolabe (Louis XVI himself will draw the route of the trip). From 1788 there is no longer any news of La Perouse who actually wrecked (we'll find out later in 1826) around the archipelago of Santa Cruz in mid-June 1788 Since his departure, the Perugia and scientists who accompanied addressed in France newspapers and memories, are those who served in writing by Milet-Mureau full trip. After passing Cape Horn safely La Perouse stopped at Easter Island and the Sandwich Islands; Ships finally descend along the west coast of America, with many observations; Monterey Califormie, he crossed the Pacific jusuq'à Macao in China, then in Manila; it goes north to Kamchatka. After stops in many Pacific islands, La Perouse stops at Botany Bay, Australia. With the voyage of Cook and Vancouver, it is one of the three great voyages of the Pacifique.En addition to the relationship of La Perouse and memories of various scholars (on botany, volcanoes, shellfish, wildlife ...) Milet-Mureau added many useful parts, such as the state of cargo loaded on navire.Ex libris manuscript Elphège Onésiphore on 4 half-title.

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