Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville
Two volumes of "Voyage autour du monde" p…

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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville Two volumes of "Voyage autour du monde" published by M Dumont D'Urville in Paris in 1834 and 1835. pages torn and tears; foxing; damp stains. As is.

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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville

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DUMONT-DURVILLE (Jules Sébastien César). Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. General summary of the voyages of discovery of Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Bougainville, Cook, Lapérouse, Bligh, Vancouver, D'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Krusenstern, Forter, Kotzbuk, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, Dumont d'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, Morrell, etc. Paris, Tenré, 1834-1835. 2 vol. in-4, midnight blue chagrin, richly decorated smooth spines, boards decorated with a triple interlaced cold fillet and large gilded compositions in the center, with Ch. Chalamet's supralibris on the upper board of vol. 1, gilt (Boutigny). First edition illustrated with 2 title vignettes, 2 frontispieces, 6 folding maps, 276 hors-texte plates and 8 in-text figures. A very fine copy presented here in a sumptuous contemporary rocaille binding signed by Boutigny with its label. Some light foxing.

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DUMONT d'URVILLE (Jules Sébastien César). Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Résumé général des découvertes de Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook,Lapérouse [...],Dumont d' Urville [...] etc... accompagné de cartes et de nombreuses gravures en taille-douce sur acier d'aprés les dessins de M. de Sainson, dessinateur du voyage de l'Astrolabe. Paris, Tenré, 1834-1835. 2 vols. in-4, red half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and friezes (period binding). Joints partly split, tears and dark stain on spine of volume 2, restorations. 6 folding maps (general map detached and torn but not missing) and numerous hors-texte plates (views, types, scenes, etc.). Scattered foxing, brown spots on pp. 198 and 199 of volume 2.

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