Published by Nico Israel Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, 1971
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 4to. Facsimile reprint of the 1800 London edition. 560pp. , with 45 plates and folding map. Bound in simulated vellum. Though not succeeding to bring home any news of the ill-fated La Pérouse expedition, the voyage was of considerable importance. Labillardire gives the first scientific description of the New Zealand flax. He describes the visits paid by the expedition to Tasmania, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Amboyna, Tonga, New Zealand, etc. Includes botanical and zoological descriptions . Bibliotheca Australiana 67. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionally packaged and shipped promptly. M24.
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Published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
ISBN 10: 1140807048 ISBN 13: 9781140807049
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Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1108073778 ISBN 13: 9781108073776
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ISBN 10: 1379428653 ISBN 13: 9781379428657
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ISBN 10: 110807376X ISBN 13: 9781108073769
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ISBN 10: 1108073778 ISBN 13: 9781108073776
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Condition: New. This 1800 English translation, covering a scientifically significant voyage in Australasia, is accompanied by a volume of finely engraved plates. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration. Num Pages: 56 pages, 44 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 4. Weight in Grams: 172. . 2014. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 110807376X ISBN 13: 9781108073769
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Condition: New. This 1800 English translation, covering a scientifically significant voyage in Australasia, is accompanied by a volume of finely engraved plates. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration. Num Pages: 482 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 634. . 2014. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC Mär 2018, 2018
ISBN 10: 137919184X ISBN 13: 9781379191841
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC Jul 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1022228897 ISBN 13: 9781022228894
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Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 2003. XX,383 pp. Ills. Soft cover.
Language: English
Published by N. Israel / Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, 1971
ISBN 10: 9060720865 ISBN 13: 9789060720868
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Facsimile of the 1800 edition. Xiii, (2) , 17-476, 65 pages + 46 plates. Simulated vellum covers. No signatures. 1" tear at head of mylar wrapper. Contains the first written account of the flax plant. ; 4to.
Language: English
Published by N. Israel / Da Capo Press, Amsterdam, 1971
ISBN 10: 9060720865 ISBN 13: 9789060720868
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Facsimile of the 1800 edition. Xiii, (2) , 17-476, 65 pages + 46 plates. Simulated vellum boards. Page dimensions: 250 x 194mm. Minor bump to tail edge of front board, otherwise fine. No signatures. This work contained the first written account of the flax plant.
Language: English
Published by Uphill, London, 1802
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Second English Edition. Volume II only of the 2 volume set. vii, 423, 45 pages. This edition was published without any engravings. Front and rear covers detached, 3-4 mm lacking at spine ends, small piece of p. 151/152 missing without effecting the text. Covers the voyage from Tasmania to New Zealand, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Java, Mauritius and back to France.
Language: English
Published by Stockdale, London, 1800
Seller: Tinakori Books, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
First Edition
Leather. Condition: Fair. First English Edition. 2 volume set. 487; 344, 105 pages, plus advertising pages. Lacking the chart of the world in vol. I and plates 29 and 32 in vol. II. Page 301/2 in vol. II is misbound after p. 306, plate 9 in vol. I. has some outlining around the swan. Front and rear covers of volume I detached, split in leather of spine of vol. II. This is the octavo edition. Original binding, leather spines and corners, marbled boards. The 43 plates in this set show indigenous people and the canoes and material culture of Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and the Solomon islands.
Language: French
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ISBN 10: 1020154527 ISBN 13: 9781020154522
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Partez à la recherche de l'explorateur La Pérouse en compagnie de Labillardière. Cette relation de voyage présente les paysages et les cultures des lieux visités et relate les événements qui ont conduit à la découverte de l'épave de La Pérouse.
Language: French
Published by JANSEN, Paris, 1799
Seller: Librairie Voyage et Exploration, Cerny, France
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8, demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné, avec pièces de titre rouge et tomaison verte. Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp., Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1) f., quelques brunissures, frottements, coiffes absentes ou usées, début de fente (tome 1), accrocs aux dos, petit manque de matière (tome 2). Le botaniste La Billardière (1755-1834) prit part à l'expédition ordonnée par le roi Louis XVI et placée sous le commandement de d'Entrecasteaux à la recherche de La Pérouse dont on était sans nouvelles. Voyage de circumnavigation à caractère scientifique et humanitaire : Ténériffe (dont l'auteur escalada le célèbre Pic), Le Cap, l'Australie, la Tasmanie, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, La Nouvelle-Guinée, Java et l'Île de France. Son récit fournit des observations sur les peuples visités, leurs m?urs, leurs outils. La partie linguistique est très développée (vocabulaires malais, tasmanien et océaniens). Son herbier renfermant 1500 plantes alors inconnues est conservé à Florence et à Genève. (Sabin, 38420). M4-Et3.
Language: French
Published by Paris (1799)., 1799
Seller: Antiquariat Steffen Völkel GmbH, Seubersdorf, Germany
First Edition
2 Text vols. and 1 Atlas; Modern Quarter-linen bindings [295 x 228 mm] and contemporary Quarter-leather large-folio [565 x 420 mm]. Paris, (1799). XVI, 442 pp. / 332, 113 (1). Atlas with 43 engraved plates and 1 double-paged copper engraved map of Australia, southeastern Africa and southern Asia. The binding of the Atlas somewhat rubbed and bumped; the map with a tear in the lower part of the middle fold (without loss). Pages throughout the atlas with some staining in the lower part (outside of the pictures), occasional staining, otherwise in good condition. First edition of French botanist's Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière's (1755-1834) travel report of the expedition he took in search of the French navigator Count of La Perouse, who had been missing for 3 years. This work gives an account of the 1791-1793 d'Entrecasteaux expedition to Australasia. This very popular account of the crew's journey north from Australia the island of New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, New Caledonia, Tasmania, the north island of New Zealand also managed to produce a first mapping of the flora and fauna of the region, as well as accounts of the indigenous people, their customs, habits and language. At the end of the second volume, a vocabulary is included that lists various words from indigenous languages and their French translation. The expedition used two boats with symbolical names: La Recherche and l'Esperance on which 219 crew members embarked. The crew did not manage to find La Perouse, therefore its achievement stands in the work produced as a consequence of the expedition. While the boats were travelling across Oceania, in Europe the French Revolutionary War was breaking out and upon reaching the island of Java all of the material collected and written by Labillardiere was seized by British authorities. After a thorough campaign for the return of his collections, he managed to get them back to France in 1796 and he published the present work in 1799. The account is written in the manner of a journal, with a narrative form. The 2 volumes are dedicated exclusively to Labillardiere's narrative account of the expedition, while the third large-format volume is dedicated to illustrations and maps pertaining to the visited areas. The atlas contains a large folding map and 43 figures representing different life settings (gatherings, meals, transport), portraits of the "savages", their weapons, fauna and flora (after drawings by Redouté); in its entirety, this constitutes an extremely interesting ethnographic study of the visited areas. Labillardière's work represents a very valuable firsthand accounts of one of the most ambitious geographical, scientifical and economical expedition of the 18th century. Ferguson Australia 307, 682; Hill II 964; Nissen, ZBI 2331 ; Ferguson 307 ; Sabin, 38420 ; Stafleu, 4070 ; Brunet III, 711 // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). The scarce second English edition of this important early travel work on Australia, by Jacques Labillardiere. The second English edition, scarce.In two volumes, without the atlas volume.'An Account of a Voyage in Search of la Perouse' recounts the d'Entrecasteaux 1791-93 expedition to Australasia, setting out to discover La Perouse, who had disappeared there in 1788, an unsuccessful mission.The author, Jacques Labillardiere, was a botanist on the expedition. This work includes his scientific exploration of the continent, and contains some of the earliest descriptions of Australian flora and fauna, and the indigenous people of Tasmania. This also includes the second ever description of an Australian spider.This English translation was published in the same year as the first French edition, in 1800. This was during a period of great interest in Australian flora, a subject not yet explored much in European literature.'Tables of the Route of the Esperance' to the rear of Volume II.Two pages of adverts to the rear of Volume II. In a half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards and spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with scattered spots, heavier to the first and last few pages. Title page of Volume I is edge worn, with small chips. Very Good Indeed. book.
Couverture rigide. Condition: Moyen. Paris, Jansen, an VIII (1799) 2 vol. in-8 ,demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné (rel. Légt post., mors usagés et rongés) et un atlas in-folio en seconde édition (1817) brochure moderne en papier marbré. Texte :Tome I : xvi pp. (dont faux-titre et titre), 440 pp.Tome II : 332 pp. (dont le faux-titre et le titre), 109 pp., (1)f. Atlas : titre gravé, grande carte sur double page (Mer des Indes et une partie de celle du Sud, par Darbié du Bocage - volante) et 43 planches (vues, scènes, costumes, portraits et types, faune et flore) gravées sur cuivre par Dien, Copia, Pérée, etc., d'après Piron, Redouté, Audebert, etc. représentant des personnages, des scènes de vie, des armes, des vues, la faune et la flore. Nombreuses piqûres et taches d'humidité, mais papier solide, à bonnes marges. Le botaniste La Billardière (1755-1834) prit part à l'expédition ordonnée par le roi Louis XVI et placée sous le commandement de d'Entrecasteaux à la recherche de La Pérouse dont on était sans nouvelles. Voyage de circumnavigation à caractère scientifique et humanitaire :Ténériffe (dont l'auteur escalada le célèbre Pic), Le Cap, l'Australie, la Tasmanie, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, La Nouvelle-Guinée, Java et l'Île de France. Son récit fournit des observations sur les peuples visités, leurs moeurs, leurs outils. La partie linguistique est très développée (vocabulaires malais, tasmanien et océaniens). Son herbier renfermant 1500 plantes alors inconnues est conservé à Florence et à Genève. (McDonnell, nº 223 ; Sabin, 38420).
Published by Jansen, 1800
Seller: Librairie Voyage et Exploration, Cerny, France
First Edition
Couverture rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. Texte et Atlas Texte In-8 (200 x 130 mm) Relié demi-basane, dos orné pièce de titre et de tomaison ,T1 manque coiffe sup.,T2 ,manque coiffes, papier bruni. 440 pp et 332 pp suivi de 109 pp de vocabulaire et table des planches contenues dans l atlas, table des chapitres du volume et errata 1pp ATLAS Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l Assemblée constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme année de la République Française. Paris : H. J. Jansen, An VIII de la République (1800). In-folio, 510 x 335 : titre, 1 carte, 43 planches. Demi toile , dos lisse avec titre , planches 6 détachée et 35 détachée et émargée , dédicace «à Mr V. Rey, secrétaire général de la Nouvelle Calédonie,1903» Atlas illustrant la Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, ouvrage composé par le médecin et botaniste Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière (1755-1834) qui fut l auteur du premier livre de botanique sur l hémisphère austral. Dans ce voyage en Océanie destiné à rechercher les vaisseaux la Boussole et l Astrolabe, La Billardière avait été chargé d étudier l histoire naturelle. Le récit qu il fit de cette expédition devint un véritable best-seller international. L atlas qui vient illustrer cette relation est composé d une grande carte dépliante De la mer des Indes et d une partie de celle du Sud dressée par J.D. Barbié du Bocage gravée par François d Houdan, et de 43 superbes planches représentant les indigènes des îles des Amis, de Nouvelle Zélande, des îles Fidji, etc. ainsi que des vues, des plantes et des animaux. Les vues et les représentations des indigènes ont été gravées par Jacques-Louis Copia d après Piron, les animaux par Jacques-Louis Pérée et Pierre Maleuvre d après Piron et Jean Baptiste Audebert et les planches de botaniques par Pérée d après Piron et surtout Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Text and Atlas Text In-8 (200 x 130 mm) Half-sheepskin bound, spine decorated with title and volume number, T1 missing upper cap, T2, missing caps, burnished paper. 440 pp and 332 pp followed by 109 pp of vocabulary and table of plates contained in the atlas, table of chapters of the volume and 1pp errata ATLAS Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l Assemblée constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme année de la République Française. Paris : H. J. Jansen, An VIII de la République (1800).- In-folio, 510 x 335: title, 1 map, 43 plates. Half canvas, spine with title, plates 6 and 35 detached , dedication "to Mr V. Rey, secretary general of New Caledonia, 1903" Atlas illustrating the Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse, a work composed by the doctor and botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière (1755-1834) who was the author of the first book on botany on the southern hemisphere. In this voyage to Oceania to search for the vessels La Boussole and l'Astrolabe, La Billardière had been commissioned to study natural history. His account of this expedition became a true international bestseller. The atlas which illustrates this relationship is composed of a large folding map of the Indian Sea and part of that of the South drawn up by JD Barbié du Bocage engraved by François d'Houdan, and 43 superb plates representing the natives of the Friends Islands, New Zealand, Fiji, etc. as well as views, plants and animals. The views and representations of the natives were engraved by Jacques-Louis Copia after Piron, the animals by Jacques-Louis Pérée and Pierre Maleuvre after Piron and Jean Baptiste Audebert and the botanical plates by Pérée after Piron and especially Pierre-Joseph Redouté.
Published by H. J. Jansen, Paris, 1817
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Potts Point, NSW, Australia
Two volumes, quarto, and folio atlas; text volumes uncut; the atlas with engraved title, folding chart of the voyage and 43 engraved maps, and plates; text in marbled papered boards, atlas in period quarter calf with marbled paper sides. The superbly illustrated narrative by the naturalist on the d'Entrecasteaux expedition, in which Australia was fully circumnavigated, if sometimes at a distance, and the islands surrounding investigated for traces of La Pérouse. Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (1755-1834), was a botanist and doctor of medicine, who had travelled widely in the Middle East: he was just finishing up his important botanical study of Syria when he was appointed to the d'Entrecasteaux voyage. He remains an important figure in early Australian science as the author of the first extensive monograph on Australian botany. The voyage spent many months on the coasts of Western Australia, just a year after Vancouver's visit, and made two long visits to Tasmania, charting, botanising and exploring the coasts. The visits are remembered in numerous place names, most notably Recherche Archipelago and Recherche Bay, named for the expedition's ship. Labillardière's account is one of very few eighteenth-century accounts of Australian exploration, and the only major French account of the continent in the early settlement period to be published in the same century. The important narrative based on the commander d'Entrecasteaux's papers did not appear until 1808, once the First French Republic had been well established. In this set the Atlas volume is present in the 1817 reissued version, from the same printing as its appearance in 1800 but with a new title-page. Published on its own, it may well have been produced to accompany text volumes that remained in print from the earlier edition. The publication is noted (without particular comment) by the McLaren bibliography and recorded by Ferguson from copies in the Mitchell Library and the Tasmanian parliamentary library. The work is particularly interesting for its descriptions (and illustrations) of Tasmania, Tonga, New Caledonia, and New Guinea, and the atlas contains outstanding views of these areas, their inhabitants, and native artefacts by the official artist Piron. Included is the famous engraving of the black swan. the first large depiction of the exotic Australian bird. Fourteen superb botanical plates, all by or produced under the direction of Redouté, the most famous of all botanical artists, include two of Eucalypts and two of Banksias. There are three fine bird studies by Audibert. Bernard Smith has written (European Vision and the South Pacific, 2nd edn, 1817, pp. 149-152) about the images in the atlas, and particularly the portraits which with "no sentiment, no sensuousness, no sense of luxury, no aura of soft primitivism clinging about the dry, wiry natives" derive rather from the school of "heroic stoicism" of Jacques Louis David. Smith notes that Piron, the official artist of the voyage, instead models his portraits on the classical ideal and his portraits are more than simply reminiscent of such classical icons as the Venus de Medici, and the Polykleitos depictions of Doryphoros and the Wounded Amazon The expedition had left France at a high-point of Revolutionary confidence, but the two vessels were dogged by poor luck, notably a power vacuum after the death of the commander and several senior officers, and were ultimately riven by political discord, not least because Labillardière himself was an ardent Republican. It was in this desperate state that the ships anchored in Batavia in mid-1793, where they learned of the French Revolution, and D'Auribeau, then commander, and the principal officers being monarchists, put themselves under Dutch protection, arrested the remainder of the officers, including Labillardière the naturalist, and Piron the artist, and disposed of the ships. D'Auribeau in turn died, and was succeeded by Rossel, who managed to return to Eu.
Published by Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, imprimeur-libraire, an VIII de la République Françoise [1800]., 1800
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2 quarto text volumes (29 x 21.5 cm.), and one folio atlas volume (53 x 37.6 cm.). Text volumes: xvi, 442 pages; 332, 113, [1] pages; errata page (p. [1] at end of volume 2). Atlas volume: engraved title-page, large double-paged engraved folding map by d'Houdan after J. D. Barbié du Bocage, and 43 engraved plates (numbered 2-44) by Copia, Perée, or Maleuvre and printed by Dien after Piron, Jean-Baptiste Audebert (ornithological plates), and Pierre-Joseph Redouté (botanical plates), with original tissue guards still present before all plates. All volumes bound in original publisher's mottled blue board, uncut (entire spine of volume I lacking, and portions of spines of volume 2 and atlas volume also lacking, but original printed spine labels still present on these volumes; slight marginal worming in volume 2). PROVENANCE: from the library of Martin Copley, A.M. (1940-2014), British-Australian book collector, businessman, and conservationist. FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION SENT BY THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY IN SEARCH OF THE VANISHED LA PÉROUSE. Written by the doctor and naturalist who accompanied the expedition. Under the general command of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, two ships bearing 219 men set sail in September 1791, proceeding round the Cape of Good Hope to the Australian coast and Tasmania, where they spent months searching doggedly but in vain for a trace of the great navigator and his party, last seen in Botany Bay in 1788. In the course of the search the ships circumnavigated Australia twice, and visited New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga, New Guinea, and New Britain. The expedition was plagued by misfortune; not only was no trace of La Pérouse's party found, but a large number of crewmen perished from scurvy, which killed d'Entrecasteaux himself in the summer of 1793, soon after the death of his fellow commander Kermadec. Following the loss of its leaders, and split between royalist officers and a crew supporting the revolutionaries, the expedition dispersed. Although it failed to achieve its primary goal, the voyage was of considerable importance for the numerous important scientific observations--geographical, ethnographic, botanical, zoological and hydrographic--made throughout the region. In 1795 the expedition papers and Labillardière's botanical and zoological specimens were seized by British forces, but, at the urging of Joseph Banks and the Royal Society, were returned a year later, enabling Labillardière to be the first to publish an account of the voyage. Of particular scientific interest for his description of the Tongas, "an excellent contribution to the ethnology of that people" (Hill), Labillardière's detailed narrative includes as well the first scientific descriptions of the New Zealand flax and several other New Zealand plants, specimens of which he brought back, and appendices containing glossaries of Malay and of the native languages of Tasmania, Tonga, New Caledonia, and Waygiou (New Guinea), with tables charting the route of the Espérance. The illustrations of the atlas volume, most after Piron, include detailed depictions of native headdresses and activities (preparation of meals, fishing, dancing), ceremonial objects, tools, boats and views of the islands, four plates of birds, of which three after Audebert, and 14 botanical plates after Redouté. Along with this quarto edition, Janson published an octavo edition during the same year (two issues are known, one giving a different publisher's address). Although priority has not been established, it is likely that the more luxurious quarto edition was issued first; comparison of copies shows the impression of the engravings to be a bit darker and crisper. REFERENCES: Sabin 38420; Ferguson 307; Hill 954 (8vo edition). Book.
Published by Chez H. J. Jansen, Paris, 1800
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
3 volumes (text: 4to [11 3/4 x 9 inches]; atlas: folio [21 x 13 1/2 inches]). Atlas: Engraved title, folding map, and 43 plates. Half titles in the text. Text and atlas uncut. Text in contemporary blue patterned paper-covered boards, rebacked to style; atlas bound to style in period uniform blue patterned paper covered boards, paper spine labels. A fine uncut set of the first edition of the official published account of the search for La Pérouse, by the naturalist on the d'Entrecasteaux expedition. After three years had passed with no news of the fate of the La Perouse's ships, in 1791 a new expedition was launched with the dual mission of searching for La Perouse but also making inquiries into the natural sciences and commerce of the region. "Rear-Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux received command of the expedition which consisted of two ships of about five hundred tons burden [La Recherche and L'Espérance] . Proceeding via the cape of Good Hope to Tasmania, extensive investigations of its coastline were made. New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, Tonga, New Britain and other groups were visited, but . no trace of the missing navigator was found . The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists into productions of countries visited were of special value" (Ferguson). The work is particularly interesting for its descriptions and illustrations of Tasmania, Tonga, New Caledonia, and New Guinea, and the atlas contains outstanding views of these areas by the official artist Piron. Included is a famous engraving of a black swan, the first large depiction of the exotic Australian bird. Fourteen botanical plates, all by or produced under the direction of Redouté, the most famous of all botanical artists, include two of Eucalypts and two of Banksias. Labillardière, botanist on the voyage, remains an important figure in early Australian science as the author of the first extensive monograph on Australian botany. Labillardière's account is one of very few eighteenth-century accounts of Australian exploration, and the only major French account of the continent in the early settlement period to be published in the same century. The narrative based on the commander d'Entrecasteaux's own papers did not appear until 1808 (i.e. after the restoration of the monarchy). The first edition was published with the text in two forms: in quarto [as here, Ferguson 307] or octavo [Ferguson 308]. The quarto text , uniform in size to the first edition text of La Perouse, is greatly preferred. Ferguson, 307 (text) and 683 (atlas); Hill, 954; Kroepelien, 697; McLaren, Lapérouse in the Pacific, 51; Nissen, ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420; Howgego E26; Brunet 111, 711.
Published by London, 1800
Seller: Librairie de l'Avenue - Henri Veyrier, Saint-Ouen, FR, France
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon état. 2 volumes in-8 et un atlas in-4, demi-basane blonde, dos lisse orné de roulettes et fers dorés rel. post., LXII- 464- VII- 423- 43 pp. & 6 pp. - 44 planches gravées dont une grande carte dépliante. Quelques brunissures marginales, hum. angulaire sans gravité sur près de 50 pp. au second volume de texte et 12 planches légère et sans atteinte aux gravures. Bon exemplaire. Rarissime première édition anglaise du journal de cette expédition, ordonnée par Louis XVI et sous le commandement de l'amiral d'Entrecasteaux, à la recherche des vaisseaux de La Pérouse dont on était sans nouvelle depuis trois ans. Membre de l'expédition, Labillardière (1755 - 1834), fut l'un des premiers naturalistes à faire connaître la flore des Terres Australes. Avec Claude Antoine Gaspard Riche (1762-1798) et Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757-1808) il effectua d'amples collections de spécimens zoologiques, botaniques et géologiques, et décrivit les coutumes et les langues des aborigènes d'Australie. À la suite de la relation, on trouve une partie linguistique avec les vocabulaires malais, du Cap de Diemen, des îles des Amis, de la Nouvelle Calédonie et de l'île Waygiou. L'atlas contient une grande carte dépliante de la mer des Indes par Barbier du Bocage, 14 planches de botanique d'après Redouté, 3 planches d'oiseaux d'après Audebert et 26 planches de portraits et de vues d'après les dessins de Piron, gravées par Dien, Copia et Pérée.