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247 - [TRAVEL]. LA BILLARDIÈRE (Jacques Julien HOUTOU DE).
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[TRAVEL]. LA BILLARDIÈRE (Jacques Julien HOUTOU DE). • Account of the expedition in search of La Pérouse, undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly during the years 1791 and 1792, and during the 1st and 2nd years of the French Republic. Paris: H. J. Jansen, Printer and Bookseller, Year VIII of the French Republic [1800]. (2 vols.) •• Atlas to Accompany the Account of the Voyage in Search of La Pérouse […]. In Paris, published by Dabo, Bookseller, 1817. 3 volumes (including two text volumes in 8vo and one atlas in folio), sheepskin and half-sheepskin with grained edges (for the atlas), smooth decorated spine (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION (for the text volumes). Atlas consisting of an engraved title page and 44 plates engraved by DIEN, after Jean-Baptiste AUDEBERT (3 pl.), LA BILLARDIÈRE, PIRON, and Pierre Joseph REDOUTÉ (14 plates)…, featuring ethnographic, zoological, or botanical themes, including one folded map. Minor wear to the bindings; a marginal tear on plate 36; some slight foxing. Ferguson, 308; Hill, 954; Sabin, IX-38420 (which does not mention this new edition of the atlas).
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