D'ENTRECASTEAUX, A.-R.-J. de Bruni

Voyage de Dentrecasteaux, envoyé à la Recherche de La Pérouse...

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1807- Paris, 1808. Two volumes, quarto, with 32 folding engraved plates in volume I, with Atlas, imperial folio, containing 39 charts and maps (29 double folding); a remarkably fine, uncut copy bound in later, French, red straight-grained morocco-backed boards, blue marbled sides with vellum tips, small stamp on text titles: "Service des Vaisseaux de l'Empereur". A remarkably handsome set of this famous voyage account, completely uncut on thick paper and substantially larger in all dimensions than copies normally seen.

This is the official commander's account of the search for La Pérouse, published posthumously eight years after Labillardière's narrative of the same expedition. The twelve magnificent maps of Western Australia and Tasmania in the Atlas record much of these coasts accurately for the first time and are among the most significant ever made. Of prime importance to Tasmania, it was D'Entrecasteaux's explorations of 1792 and 1793 which focused attention on the Derwent River area (now Hobart) as a suitable place for settlement.

This is a very scarce voyage account, of great relevance to Australia and the Pacific; the Atlas volume is in its correct first edition form, with the charts all present in their original issues. Copies are sometimes found with later issues.
Davidson, 'A Book Collector's Notes', pp. 104-5; Hill, 467; McLaren, 49-50; Wantrup, 64a-64b.

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• Bestellnummer: 504_879

• Antiquariat: Hordern House (AUSTRALIA)