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529 - DUMONT d'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien. *Picturesque Voyage Around the World*. General Summary of Voyages of Discovery [...]. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1843. 2 vols., large 4to (no title page, spotting, folds of the last map reinforced on the reverse). Contemporary quarter blue shagreen, marbled paper boards, spines with raised bands (slightly rubbed). A selection (first published in 1834) of important voyages of discovery in the Pacific, compiled by Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842).Steel engravings: frontispiece in each vol. showing 8 portraits of famous seafarers, 6 fold-out maps (Hawaii, Tahiti, world map, the Pacific, Tonga, New Zealand) and numerous plates, mostly two per page, depicting exotic landscapes and scenes, indigenous people, and buildings, based on drawings by L.A. De Sainson made during Dumont d’Urville’s celebrated voyage aboard *The Astrolabe* (1826–1829, 1830–1834).
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DUMONT d'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien. *Picturesque Voyage Around the World*. General Summary of Voyages of Discovery [...]. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1843. 2 vols., large 4to (no title page, spotting, folds of the last map reinforced on the reverse). Contemporary quarter blue shagreen, marbled paper boards, spines with raised bands (slightly rubbed). A selection (first published in 1834) of important voyages of discovery in the Pacific, compiled by Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842).Steel engravings: frontispiece in each vol. showing 8 portraits of famous seafarers, 6 fold-out maps (Hawaii, Tahiti, world map, the Pacific, Tonga, New Zealand) and numerous plates, mostly two per page, depicting exotic landscapes and scenes, indigenous people, and buildings, based on drawings by L.A. De Sainson made during Dumont d’Urville’s celebrated voyage aboard *The Astrolabe* (1826–1829, 1830–1834).
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