[LA PEROUSE et LESSEPS]. - Lot 84

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[LA PEROUSE et LESSEPS]. - Lot 84
[LA PEROUSE et LESSEPS]. Lapérouse's voyage, written according to his original manuscripts, followed by an appendix containing everything discovered since the shipwreck . Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Delaunay, 1831. In-8 d'un portrait, (3) ff., 1 facsimile, XVIII, 436 pp., a map, contemporary binding in brown half calf, smooth spine decorated, blue speckled edges. First edition, rare. Portrait of La Pérouse, facsimile of writing and general map of the voyage. "What will make our book far superior to anything that has been published on this subject, either in France or in foreign countries, is an appendix in which we have brought together under a single point of view all that has been discovered concerning the Astrolabe and the Compass, since Lapérouse stopped writing (...) Mr. de Lesseps, who was part of the expedition, was kind enough to review our work, and to add notes that only he was able to provide". (Editor's Preface). Essential and complementary documents to La Pérouse's relationship. Very nice copy in a beautiful period binding. Marginal freckles without gravity to a few sheets. Ferguson, p.16; Sabin, 38965.
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