Entdeckungsreise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe, unternommen auf Befehl des König Carls X. in den Jahren 1826-1828-1829. Text- and atlas in 1 vol.
by DUMONT D'URVILLE, (Jules-Sébastian-César)
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Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, (1836). Printed title, lithogr. title, and 60 lithographed plates. 2 cols. 118 pp., 2 pp. index. Folio (360 x 260 mm). Modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. Text- and atlas in 1 vol. Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann, (1836). Beautifully illustrated and complete German edition of Dumont d'Urville's (1790-1842) account on his second expedition to the Pacific. He can be considered "the most celebrated Pacific explorer after Cook...at heart a frustrated anthropologist, long before the profession had been invented..." (E.S. Dodge). The Corvette "Astrolabe", with its crew of 79, of which ten died, thirteen deserted, and twenty had to be left behind on various islands, around the Cape of Good Hope, visited a.o., islands in the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, and a plethora of Islands in Sulawesi and the Moluccas. Two of the interesting plates show a.o. Sidney, other include many landscape scenery and ethnografic depictions.- Text and plates slightly foxed, some marginal staining, otherwise a nice copy. - Lonchamp 854; cf. Sabin 21210; cf. Lipperheide Md12. GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL ; HELVETICA ; SOUTH SEA, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA ; PACIFIC ;
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- Title
- Entdeckungsreise der französischen Corvette Astrolabe, unternommen auf Befehl des König Carls X. in den Jahren 1826-1828-1829. Text- and atlas in 1 vol.
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- DUMONT D'URVILLE, (Jules-Sébastian-César)
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- Used
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- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Schaffhausen, J. Brodtmann
- Date Published
- (1836)
- Keywords
- GEOGRAPHY: TRAVEL ; HELVETICA ;
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