Title
Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde
By
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Milet de Mureau, Louis Marie Antoine Destouff, baron de.
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820
Pingré, Alexandre Guy, 1711-1796
Duboy-Laverne, P. D.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Paris, Imprimerie de la République, 1797
Notes
Atlas has engraved half-title.
"Relation d'un voyage intéressant de la frégate la Princesse, de Manille à Saint-Blaise, en 1780 et 1781," translated from the Spanish of F. A. Maurelle by A. G. Pingré: t. 1, p. 256-323.
"Extrait de la relation d'un voyage fait en 1779, par don François-Antoine Maurelle ... pour le découverte des côtes occidentales de l'Amérique Septentrionale": t. 1, p. 324-342.
Lapérouse sailed from France in 1785 with the frigates Astrolabe and Boussole to the Pacific and west coast of North America. The expedition visited Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Australia. After leaving Botany Bay the expedition disappeared, cf. Hill, Jonathan A., The Hill collection of Pacific voyages, p. 173.
Botanical and ornithological plates are designed by Prévost.
Atlas volume shelved in folio section.
Subjects
1797
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Alaska
,
Astrolabe (Frigate)
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Australia
,
Boussole (Frigate)
,
California
,
Copper engraving
,
Easter Island
,
Ethnology
,
Graphic media :
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Hawaii
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Korea
,
Northwest Coast of North America
,
Ornithology
,
Pacific Area
,
Pacific Coast (North America)
,
Pacific Ocean
,
Plants
,
Samoan Islands
,
Uncolored
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Voyages around the world
BHL Collections
Blog Features
Call Number
G477.L36 1797
Language
French
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15861
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