14 - DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore.

DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore. Hydrography. Atlas of the Voyage Around the World, undertaken by order of the King aboard His Majesty’s corvette La Coquille during the years 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825 [...] Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1827. Large folio (58 x 41.5 cm), title page, table of plates, 21 pp. (introduction), 35 maps and plans mounted on tabs (out of 49). Contemporary fawn half-basane leather, covers of laid paper, smooth spine with red morocco title label, gilt title, gilt fillets (binding worn, a few plates detached but interior remains in very fresh condition). Hydrographic atlas of the famous scientific voyage around the world aboard La Coquille, an expedition led by Louis-Isidore Duperrey, an officer and explorer, from 1822 to 1825. Title page engraved by Abel Malo after Ermeler. The maps and plans included here document the principal hydrographic surveys conducted during this circumnavigation, from the coasts of Peru and the Pomotou Islands to New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Caroline Islands. Featuring maps of islands and archipelagos, as well as plans of bays, ports, harbors, and straits—along with surveys of Saint Helena and Ascension Island and a plan of the port of Valparaíso— this atlas is a significant contribution to the cartography of the Pacific Ocean, refining the outlines of islands (notably the Caroline and Society Islands) and coastlines that were still poorly understood at the time. Papeete, Bora Bora, the Society Islands, the Caroline Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea, Tasmania, the Australian coast...