Voyage pittoresque autour du monde; DUMONT D’URVILLE [Jules Sebastian]; 1843

Description: Title: Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse, G.Bligh, Vancouver, d' Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders, Krusenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, Dumont d'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, D. Morbell, etc. Publié sous la direction de M. Dumont d'Urville. Author : DUMONT D’URVILLE [Jules Sebastian]. Publisher: Paris: L. Tenre, 1834. Description & Condition: First edition. Complete in 2 volumes. 4to (11 x 7.5 inches). Leather backed recently with gilt decoration and black leather label and marbled paper boards. Vol. I: half title, frontis, title page, viii, pp. 574; Vol. II: half title, frontis, title page, pp. 584. With half-titles and engraved frontispiece portraits of Bougainville, Cook, Perouse and Baudin (vol. I) and Beechey, Duperrey, Krusenstern, and Dumont D’Urville (vol. II). Two column text format. 268 engraved plates, mostly two to a page, and five engraved folding maps (lacking map at end of vol. I). Scattered foxing and occasional usual offsetting around plates. A few corners missing due to dog-earring. First edition of Dumont D’Urvilles selection of important voyages of discovery from Magellan onwards. A sailor all his life, Dumont D’Urville accomplished three major voyages of discovery for France in the south Pacific. Overall, very good. ADDITIONAL SHIPMENT CHARGES MAY APPLY. PLEASE PROVIDE POSTAL CODE WHEN REQUESTING SHIPMENT ESTIMATE. Please provide your e-mail address when requesting additional pictures. Posted with eBay Mobile

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