ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790-1855). Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne commandées par M. Freycinet . Paris: Leblanc, 1822.
ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790-1855). Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne commandées par M. Freycinet . Paris: Leblanc, 1822. 2 volumes text, 8 o (200 x 128 mm) and atlas 2 o (328 x 246 mm). Half-titles. One lithographed map and 25 lithographed plates (some occasional spotting). Uniformly bound in contemporary French half calf, marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces on spines (some rubbing at extremities). Provenance : P.W. van Doorne (bookplate in atlas). FIRST EDITION of the narrative of France's first post-Napoleonic circumnavigation on which Arago sailed as draughtsman. The scientific reports were separately published by Freycinet from 1825 to 1844 (see lot 207), the most notable of which recorded the measurement of the southern hemisphere. Arago's popular account focuses on the scenery, people and natural history of the Pacific, reflected in the French title of the first edition: Promenade autour du monde . His drawings are among the most realistic expedition illustrations of their time, well outside the classical rendition given to Pacific islanders by Bartolozzi in his interpretation of the drawings of Webber and Hodges on Cook's voyages. Louis de Freycinet had first been to the Pacific with Nicholas Baudin's Australian exploratory expedition of 1800-1803 when he was responsible for its charts and atlases. This 1817 expedition was of his own design, intended for scientific rather than geographic discovery. Sailing east from the Cape of Good Hope in the Uranie , he made for Timor, Micronesia and Hawaii, Australia, and the Malouines (Falkland Islands), where his one ship was wrecked and another was purchased and re-christened Physicienne . Appended are vocabularies for Timor, the Marianas and Carolines, and Hawaii. Ferguson 850; Forbes 537; Hill 28; Sabin 1867. (3)
ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790-1855). Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne commandées par M. Freycinet . Paris: Leblanc, 1822.
ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790-1855). Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne commandées par M. Freycinet . Paris: Leblanc, 1822. 2 volumes text, 8 o (200 x 128 mm) and atlas 2 o (328 x 246 mm). Half-titles. One lithographed map and 25 lithographed plates (some occasional spotting). Uniformly bound in contemporary French half calf, marbled boards, morocco lettering pieces on spines (some rubbing at extremities). Provenance : P.W. van Doorne (bookplate in atlas). FIRST EDITION of the narrative of France's first post-Napoleonic circumnavigation on which Arago sailed as draughtsman. The scientific reports were separately published by Freycinet from 1825 to 1844 (see lot 207), the most notable of which recorded the measurement of the southern hemisphere. Arago's popular account focuses on the scenery, people and natural history of the Pacific, reflected in the French title of the first edition: Promenade autour du monde . His drawings are among the most realistic expedition illustrations of their time, well outside the classical rendition given to Pacific islanders by Bartolozzi in his interpretation of the drawings of Webber and Hodges on Cook's voyages. Louis de Freycinet had first been to the Pacific with Nicholas Baudin's Australian exploratory expedition of 1800-1803 when he was responsible for its charts and atlases. This 1817 expedition was of his own design, intended for scientific rather than geographic discovery. Sailing east from the Cape of Good Hope in the Uranie , he made for Timor, Micronesia and Hawaii, Australia, and the Malouines (Falkland Islands), where his one ship was wrecked and another was purchased and re-christened Physicienne . Appended are vocabularies for Timor, the Marianas and Carolines, and Hawaii. Ferguson 850; Forbes 537; Hill 28; Sabin 1867. (3)
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