Corps de garde a Samboangan (Ile Mindanao)

Author: Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville / Thierry Frères / LeBreton, L[ouis][artist]. / Blanchard., P. [engr.]

Publisher: Gide et Cie., Paris 1841-55

Year: 1846

Size: 19.3 x 31.8 cm view 23.9 x 34.2 cm (Japan paper)

Reference: Griffin Lib. of Congress p. 115; Hill I, p.89; Sabin 21216

Description

hand-coloured lithograph.

EXTREMELY RARE stunning view of the guard houses and the look-out tower from ‘Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans L’Océanie …l’Astrolabe…Zélée…: Atlas Pittoresque’, pl. 143.

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.