Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de,
1741-1788
creator
Milet de Mureau, Louis Marie Antoine Destouff, baron de.
contributor
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio,
1750-1820
contributor
Pingré, Alexandre Guy,
1711-1796
contributor
Duboy-Laverne, P. D.
contributor
text
book
Paris
Imprimerie de la République
1797
1797
FRE
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.
1797
Alaska
Astrolabe (Frigate)
Australia
Boussole (Frigate)
California
Copper engraving
Easter Island
Ethnology
Graphic media :
Hawaii
Korea
Northwest Coast of North America
Ornithology
Pacific Area
Pacific Coast (North America)
Pacific Ocean
Plants
Samoan Islands
Uncolored
Voyages around the world
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