Cyrille Pierre Theodore LAPLACE
Voyage autour du monde, par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine, exécuté sur la corvette de l'état La Favorite pendant les années 1830, 1831 et 1832
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1833 - 1835|15.50 x 24.50 cm|4 tomes en 4 volumes reliés
First edition. The first 2 volumes were published in 1833, the second 2 in 1835. One large folding map and numerous tables (Temperatures, meteorology...) at the end; 4 title vignettes and tailpieces depicting ships or scenes at the end of each chapter. This edition is complete as such (BNF Notice no.: FRBNF30738909), it was the publisher Arthus Bertrand who republished the text in 1835 (and who was the depository of the royal printing house for voyages) by adding 3 atlases that completed the publication at various dates, a hydrographic atlas, a zoological atlas (octavo, 1839) and an album of aquatint voyage illustrations, all in folio format; these very expensive and particularly sumptuous a
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