67 - LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de.

LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. [Atlas]. De La Pérouse’s Voyage Around the World, Published in Accordance with the Decree of April 22, 1791... Paris, Plassan, Year VI (1798). In-plano, frontispiece title page, portrait, 69 plates, including maps. Later blue half-cloth, smooth spine (binding worn, a few loose leaves, tears and missing sections affecting 2 plates, one plate with a small marginal tear, slight foxing). The atlas alone from the first edition in 8vo format, printed one year after the 4to edition Includes a frontispiece title page engraved by Moreau the Younger, a portrait of Jean-François de Galaup, Count of La Pérouse, engraved by Alexandre Tardieu, and 69 copperplate engravings in black based on drawings by La Martinière, Prévost, and Duché de Vancy. With the beautiful frontispiece title page engraved in black. These plates include maps and plans, coastal views, landscapes and depictions of local inhabitants, plates devoted to flora and fauna, and plates depicting traditional crafts.. The two frigates comprising the expedition commanded by La Pérouse, *La Boussole* and *L’Astrolabe*, which set sail from France in 1785, had vanished without a trace in 1788. It was not until 30 years later, off the coast of Vanikoro, that various pieces of debris belonging to the expedition were found. Generally, only the four volumes of text are available. Sabin, 38960.