Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde Resumé Général des Voyages de Découvertes de Magellan, Tasman, Bryon, Carteret, Cook, Wilson, Baudin, Kotzebue, Dumont d’Urville etc. [2 volumes]

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Author: Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville [author] / de Sainson [artist]

Publisher: L. Tenré in Paris.

Year: 1834-1835

Size: 28.5 x 19.5 cm, 4to

Reference: Taylor 19, Graesse VIII 227; Ferguson 1771; Hocken 55; Hill Coll I, 88; for further details see wikipedia

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viii, 576pp, 584pp, red half-leather binding, with gilt titles, with 2 portraits frontispieces, many steel engravings + 6 folded maps; Philippines on pp 235-275 with complete set of prints.
2 volumes of the first edition, published by L. Tenré in Paris, also translated later into several languages, and re-published in several editions.
This is the famous narrative on the Philippines with its iconic Philippine engravings.
Dumont was a French explorer and naval officer. For thirty-eight months he explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Several seaweeds, plants, and shrubs are named after him, as well as D’Urville Island.

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