LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François-(1741-1788?). A Voyage Round the World , Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe . London: G. G. and J. Robinson 1799. The first complete English edition, from the library of Queen Charlotte and rebound in leather recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina . This edition of La Pérouse’s voyage is described by the translator as “one of the most magnificent in its conception” among travel books. Forbes 311; Hill 975; Howes L-93b; see Lada-Mocarski 52; Wickersham 6612a. Two text volumes, quarto (290 x 232mm) and one atlas volume, folio (416 x 278mm). Text: engraved frontispiece; atlas: engraved title, 69 engraved plates, 1 of which is a folding map handcolored in outline (text: without half-titles). Rebound in 18th-century diced russia, recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina , by Courtland Benson. Provenance : Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland (1744-1818; note on flyleaf) – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777-1848; bookplate) – Donald A. Heald Rare Books.
LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François-(1741-1788?). A Voyage Round the World , Performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe . London: G. G. and J. Robinson 1799. The first complete English edition, from the library of Queen Charlotte and rebound in leather recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina . This edition of La Pérouse’s voyage is described by the translator as “one of the most magnificent in its conception” among travel books. Forbes 311; Hill 975; Howes L-93b; see Lada-Mocarski 52; Wickersham 6612a. Two text volumes, quarto (290 x 232mm) and one atlas volume, folio (416 x 278mm). Text: engraved frontispiece; atlas: engraved title, 69 engraved plates, 1 of which is a folding map handcolored in outline (text: without half-titles). Rebound in 18th-century diced russia, recovered from the wreck of the Metta Caterina , by Courtland Benson. Provenance : Queen Charlotte of Great Britain and Ireland (1744-1818; note on flyleaf) – Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (1777-1848; bookplate) – Donald A. Heald Rare Books.
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