Voyage pittoresque à l'Île-de-France,au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et à l'Île de Ténériffe (...). Avec un atlas composé de trois cartes géographiques, et de quarante-cinq vues pittoresques dessinées sur les lieux, et gravées en partie par l'auteur

First edition illustrated with 3 folding tables printed on separate leaves in the second text volume and 45 engraved plates, single or folding (3 maps, 42 plans and picturesque views), most with tissue guards, in the atlas volume.

Cf. Gay 266. Toussaint & Adolphe D1100. Ryckebusch II, 5713.

Some foxing throughout the text volumes and atlas.

Bindings in half black glazed calf with corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, circles and large gilt fleurons, burgundy calf lettering and volume-numbering labels, boards covered in paste paper with a cold-stamped garland border, light rubbing to spines and boards, bindings slightly later for the text volumes; the atlas volume in contemporary marbled paper boards, spine later and re-backed in green percaline, title label pasted to the centre of the upper board. The whole presented in a modern half bottle-green morocco slipcase, raised bands to spine, title label of the same leather pasted to the centre of the upper board.

Jacques-Gérard Milbert (1766–1840), landscape painter and engraver, was appointed to join the expedition to the Terres Australes led by Baudin, alongside Péron and Freycinet.

Forced to interrupt his journey at the Île de France on account of poor health, he remained there for two years and gathered during that time the materials for this work. Milbert subsequently became a corresponding member of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, to which he had sent numerous botanical and zoological specimens.

Ryckebusch notes that "cet ouvrage rare comporte de multiples renseignements sur l'île de France, il concerne indirectement l'île Bourbon par certains chapitres (Administration de M. de La Bourdonnaye et de M. Poivre... habitants... culture et industrie... administration, etc)". 

Bookplate of Lady Le Fleming, of Rydal Hill, pasted to the front pastedown of the first volume.