LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du voyage é la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800] - Atlas pour servir á la relation du voyage á la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: Dabo, 1817.
LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du voyage é la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800] - Atlas pour servir á la relation du voyage á la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: Dabo, 1817. 3 volumes: comprising 2 volumes text, 4 o (304 x 230 mm) and atlas 2 o (560 x 372 mm). Half-titles, atlas with engraved title, folding engraved world map, 43 engraved plates. Contemporary red quarter morocco and pink boards, uncut (altas rebound in a matching manner). FIRST EDITION of the text volumes and a later issue of the atlas. This important voyage in search of La Pérouse serves as the completion of La Pérouse's own narrative. The expedition was sent under the command of D'Entrecasteaux in search of the lost explorer. Australia was circumnavigated twice, they surveyed the coasts of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the north coast of New Guinea, south-west coast of Australia, the Tonga and other islands in the vain hope of recovering some relics of La Pérouse's expedition. The shattered fragments of La Pérouse's frigates were eventually found thirty-nine years later on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz Islands in Melanesia. The political squabbles of the French Revolutionary government caused a split in the expedition. Royalists joined the Dutch on Java while the Republicans, together with the expedition's charts, journals and natural history specimens were captured by the British Navy. At the urging of Sir Joseph Banks, these were later delivered to France under a flag of truce. The plates in the atlas depict views, the natives of the Admiralty Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands and New Caledonia, native implements and canoes, birds, plants, etc. 13 of the botanical plates are after or finished by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. The text, also simultaneously issued in octavo, is here in quarto format. Brunet III:711 ("Ouvrage estimé"); Cox I:68; Ferguson 307 and 682; Hill 955; Kroepelien 697 and 698; Nissen ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420; Wantrup 132; Wickersham 6613a. (3)
LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du voyage é la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800] - Atlas pour servir á la relation du voyage á la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: Dabo, 1817.
LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-1834). Relation du voyage é la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: H.J. Jansen, an VIII [1799-1800] - Atlas pour servir á la relation du voyage á la recherche de La Pérouse. Paris: Dabo, 1817. 3 volumes: comprising 2 volumes text, 4 o (304 x 230 mm) and atlas 2 o (560 x 372 mm). Half-titles, atlas with engraved title, folding engraved world map, 43 engraved plates. Contemporary red quarter morocco and pink boards, uncut (altas rebound in a matching manner). FIRST EDITION of the text volumes and a later issue of the atlas. This important voyage in search of La Pérouse serves as the completion of La Pérouse's own narrative. The expedition was sent under the command of D'Entrecasteaux in search of the lost explorer. Australia was circumnavigated twice, they surveyed the coasts of Tasmania, New Caledonia, the north coast of New Guinea, south-west coast of Australia, the Tonga and other islands in the vain hope of recovering some relics of La Pérouse's expedition. The shattered fragments of La Pérouse's frigates were eventually found thirty-nine years later on the reef of Vanikolo in the Santa Cruz Islands in Melanesia. The political squabbles of the French Revolutionary government caused a split in the expedition. Royalists joined the Dutch on Java while the Republicans, together with the expedition's charts, journals and natural history specimens were captured by the British Navy. At the urging of Sir Joseph Banks, these were later delivered to France under a flag of truce. The plates in the atlas depict views, the natives of the Admiralty Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Friendly Islands and New Caledonia, native implements and canoes, birds, plants, etc. 13 of the botanical plates are after or finished by Pierre-Joseph Redouté. The text, also simultaneously issued in octavo, is here in quarto format. Brunet III:711 ("Ouvrage estimé"); Cox I:68; Ferguson 307 and 682; Hill 955; Kroepelien 697 and 698; Nissen ZBI 2331; Sabin 38420; Wantrup 132; Wickersham 6613a. (3)
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