276 - [Oceania]. DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules-Seb.-C.

[Oceania]. DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules-Seb.-C. Voyage of the corvette Astrolabe, undertaken during the years 1826–1827–1828–1829 under the command of Mr. Jules Dumont d'Urville... Atlas Paris, (J. Tastu), 1833. Folio (51 x 35 cm), title page and 74 plates, including 8 maps and 18 hand-colored plates. Green half-basane leather with long grain, maroquin-style, with period corners, smooth spine decorated with rolled fillets and gilt metal fittings, gilt title (binding rubbed, upper hinge split, a few scattered light foxing spots, and some plates slightly oxidized, but interior remains fresh). First edition of the atlas from the most beautiful 19th-century French travel book. A fine copy. Circumnavigation of the Astrolabe, commissioned by Jules Dumont d’Urville from 1826 to 1829. With 74 plates, including a large black-and-white lithographed bust portrait of Dumont d’Urville in uniform, depicted on the Astrolabe, after Maurin; 8 black-and-white engraved maps, including Ambroise Tardieu’s map of the Pacific Ocean, as well as views, landscapes, and depictions of the peoples encountered during the expedition, primarily in the Pacific and Oceania, lithographed in black and, in some cases, delicately hand-colored with wash. The compositions are largely based on drawings by Louis-Auguste de Sainson, the expedition’s official artist. Title letter engraved on steel by Hacq; vignette by Portier. Includes the dry stamp “Voyage de l’Astrolabe Dumont Durville Commandant JT” (for the publisher Tastu), the official dry stamp affixed to the engravings and original plates of the monumental edition of *Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe*.