Voyage autour du monde. Hydrographie Atlas
by DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore
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- Condition
- Binding a little rubbed, very slightly browned along top edges not affecting images, title-page a little creased.
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About This Item
The complete hydrographical atlas from the Duperrey voyage, published as part of one of the immense French grands voyages series. As with most of these publications, the various components could also be bought separately, sometimes even being produced by different publishers. In fact full publication of the Duperrey voyage was never completed. His hydrographic work tended, as Dunmore comments, 'towards perfecting existing maps rather than preparing charts of unknown areas'. As a result, the beautiful maps clearly display their debt to the earlier explorers, and include the discoveries and vessel tracks of luminaries such as Cook, Bougainville, La Pérouse, Bligh and Flinders.
Duperrey's voyage gathered 'vast quantities of ethnographic and scientific data' (Hill), and included two visits to the Australian mainland. The details of the harbours at the Brisbane River and Macquarie Harbour in Nouvelle Hollande are attributed in the cartouche to Oxley and Evans respectively. The wonderful map of the Bay of Islands reflects the two weeks that the Duperrey expedition spent there in 1824.
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- Bookseller
- Hordern House Rare Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3804550
- Title
- Voyage autour du monde. Hydrographie Atlas
- Author
- DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore
- Book Condition
- Used - Binding a little rubbed, very slightly browned along top edges not affecting images, title-page a little creased.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Arthus Bertrand
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1827
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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