Engraving of Vanikoro captioned 'Monument à la mémoire de Lapèrouse'..
by [LA PEROUSE MEMORIAL] RIENZI, Domeny de
- Used
- Condition
- In good condition.
- Seller
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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Charming engraved plate depicting the memorial to La Pérouse erected by the Dumont d'Urville expedition to Vanikoro. The plate was published in Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de Mélanésie (Paris 1836). This book condensed and clarified information and images from the great French voyages of the first decades of the nineteenth-century including Freycinet, Duperrey and Dumont d'Urville.
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- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3509128
- Title
- Engraving of Vanikoro captioned 'Monument à la mémoire de Lapèrouse'..
- Author
- [LA PEROUSE MEMORIAL] RIENZI, Domeny de
- Book Condition
- Used - In good condition.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Didot Fréres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1836
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...