"Travel] Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE - Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie (Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania) Chez Gide à Paris, 1841-1846 - First edition of this important account of the voyages on the corvettes l'Astrolabe and la Zélée carried out by order of the King during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840. Period bindings in fawn half-basanes, 5-rib spines, ornate compartments and morocco title-pieces, rubbing with a few small leather tears not serious, solid bindings. A fine copy, complete with the 9 folding maps, the interior well preserved overall, with scattered foxing and some browned quires. Traces of moisture in last volume. This was Dumont D'Urville's third voyage around the world, and he made a considerable contribution to science in the fields of zoology, botany, mineralogy and more. During this voyage, Dumont d'Urville and Charles Hector Jacquinot explored the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, the Tonga Islands, New Zealand and Tasmania, the Hamoa and Viti archipelagos, Vanikoro, the Solomon Islands, the Carolines, New Guinea and Australia, then the Southern Ocean: Dumont d'Urville reached the Antarctic in January 1840. He died 2 years later in the tragic circumstances of the Meudon rail disaster. This edition, the original of the text, includes the account of the voyage told by Dumont d'Urville, then completed from volume 4 onwards by expedition hydrographer Vincendon-Dumoulin from the author's notebooks and retaining the first person, another publication comprising a total of 30 volumes essentially composed of In-Folio atlases rich in illustrated plates saw the light of day, published first by Dumont d'Urville then completed after his death, by Charles Hector Jacquinot. In-8, 82pp, 295pp, 363pp (2), 4pp, 451pp (1), 410pp (1), 8pp, 428pp (1), 344pp (1), 346pp (1), 391pp (1), 360pp (1) 318pp (1) Provenance: Superlibris "E. Michelot "" on the iron at the tail of each volume."