Jacques labillardiere (51 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: 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. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Labillardière's journey in search of the lost navigator La Pérouse is a thrilling narrative of exploration. Accompanying the expedition were scientists and artists who documented the plants, animals, and peoples of the places they visited. This book is an invaluable primary source for 18th century French exploration in the Pacific.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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: 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.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Labillardière's journey in search of the lost navigator La Pérouse is a thrilling narrative of exploration. Accompanying the expedition were scientists and artists who documented the plants, animals, and peoples of the places they visited. This book is an invaluable primary source for 18th century French exploration in the Pacific.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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Zustand: 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. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Carlton, Miegunyah Press, 2003. XX,383 pp. Ills. Soft cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 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.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: 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.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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Full-Leather. Zustand: 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.…

Buch. Zustand: 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.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 is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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. …

fait par ordre de l?Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines (corners bumped, spines rubbed, joints split, but solid), a few spots of light foxing. Vol 1: pp. xvi; 442; vol 2: 332; 113, [errata]; folio atlas in contemporary green papered boards, spine in modern morocco lettered in gilt : engraved title page, 44 plates after Piron and Redoute including a double page map, pale water stain to lower portion of several plates, a very good, complete set. First edition of this account by Labillardière of d?Entrecasteaux?s voyage in search of La Pérouse. Three years after last contact was made with La Pérouse at Botany Bay, the official search expedition under D?Entrecasteaux set sail from Brest to discover his fate. In addition to this prime objective were instructions to survey coastlines, obtain natural history specimens, and gain further scientific data on the islands of the Pacific. The naturalist on the voyage was Labillardière, who along with artist Piron recorded numerous specimens in Van Diemen?s Land, south-west New Holland (including famously the first detailed study of the black swan), Tonga, New Guinea and New Caledonia. The expedition spent two years searching and studying in the southern ocean before sickness swept through the two ships, D?Entrecasteaux himself dying from scurvy in late 1793. In disarray they sailed to Java, where they learned from the Dutch of the French Revolution, and suspected Republicans (including Labillardière and Piron) were arrested. On the voyage back home they were captured by the British and all their scientific papers were seized, to the despair of the naturalist. However Labillardière?s ally in science Joseph Banks negotiated the return of their research papers, ?in order that he may be able to publish his Observations on Natural History in a complete manner?, which he duly did in 1800. Labillardière?s account is the first that was published from the famous expedition: the official account would not be published for another eight years, upon the restoration of the monarchy. The quality of the plates in the atlas volume is exceptional, depicting with great sensitivity the indigenous people who inhabited the islands and continent. The botanical plates, which were completed in France under the direction of Pierre-Joseph Redoute, the most accomplished artist of the era, depict in large scale eucalypts, banksias and new specimens gathered on the journey. The superb plates are complemented by a lengthy and detailed text, which includes a supplement of vocabularies of languages encountered on the voyage. The interest in Labillardière?s account of the voyage was so great that in the year it was first published in French it underwent four English editions. It remains a desirable record of one of the great French voyages to the southern hemisphere. The wreck of La Pérouse?s ship ?L?Astrolabe? was located on Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands by Dumont D?Urville in 1829 (his other ship, ?La Boussole?, was located nearby in 1986). The search for La Pérouse, or the discovery of evidence explaining the true fate of his expedition, had been of paramount importance to the French government for decades and had captured the imagination of the public, not only in France but across Europe.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. 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. None (illustrator). book.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: 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).…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: 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.…

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 Europe and later edited the manuscripts for the official account. That Labillardière even made it back is a small miracle (given how many of his shipmates died of scurvy or in prison), but the most serendipitous aspect of the project is that the expedition's papers and all of his specimens were confiscated by the surviving commander of the expedition, eventually ending up in England: only the support of Banks himself, placing science above war, meant that the herbarium ever made it to France under a flag of truce. . Some leaves in the atlas with restoration and scattered foxing, title page and five plates slightly smaller; a few leaves in the second text volume with light water-stains; otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Zustand: 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.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: 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.…

First Edition. Full Description: LABILLARDIÈRE, [Jacques Julien Houton de]. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la République Françoise.Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, An VIII de la République Françoise [i.e., 1799-1800]. First edition, quarto issue. Two quarto text volumes (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 290 x 222 mm.) and one folio atlas volume (22 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches; 565 x 415 mm.). xvi, 442; 332, 113, [1, errata] pp. Atlas with engraved title, double-page route map of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceean by Barbie du Bocage and forty-three plates engraved by Copia after drawings by Piron, the expedition artist, and the botanical plates by Redoute. Contemporary French mottled calf [by Courteval]. Covers with borders of rope-and-disc design enclosed between gilt rules, smooth spines divided into sections using wide gilt bands stripped vertically, sections with large gilt designs, black morocco gilt lettering labels, gilt board edges, turn-ins decorated in a gilt greek-key pattern, marbled endpapers, edges speckled yellow. Atlas corners and caps expertly strengthened. Old and scattered oxidation stains to pp. 148-149 in Vol. II (text). Plate 10 with old, opaque stain to lower corner (into plate margin but not affecting image), four other plates with browning spots to lower blank margin. A truly exceptional set; beautifully bound, very tall and very clean. A splendid set of the first edition in contemporary bindings by one of the greatest binders of his day. The text of the first edition was issued simultaneously in octavo and quarto formats, both intended to be accompanied by the folio volume of plates. "The quarto volumes seem to have been printed so that they could be uniformly bound with the quarto La Pérouse volumes. The fine atlas volume is much prized as it is scarce and often found lacking from the set" (Hill). "No news had been received for three years respecting the ships Boussole and Astrolabe, commanded by M. de la Pérouse, when, early in the year 1791, the attention of the Constituent Assembly was called to the fate of that navigator and his companions. On February 9, 1791 a decree was passed on the subject, which directed (inter alia) that the King be petitioned to give orders for the fitting out of one or more ships, equipped with men of science, naturalists and draughtsmen, with the two-fold mission of searching for M. de la Pérouse and of making inquiries relative to the sciences and to commerce.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 although most searching inquiries were made, no trace of the missing navigator was found.The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists into the productions of countries visited were of special value" (Ferguson 307). Labillardière was one of the naturalists accompanying the expedition; his is the first published account of this very important Pacific voyage. Ferguson, Australia, 307 and 682. Hill 954. Sabin 38420. HBS 65251. $12,500. LA PÉROUSE, Jean F.G. de (illustrator).…