Voyage autour du monde. La Nouvelle-Calédonie (côte orientale). [- Océanie - Les Îles des Pins, Loyalty et Tahiti].

2 vols, 12mo: [4 incl. frontispiece]-364 pp., [4]-388 pp.; 1st vol.: 1 folding map, 3 pls (Fp. & 1st flylvs detached); 2nd vol.: 1 folding map, 4 pls.

Cont. half roan, gilt-stamped spines on raised bands, green cloth covers (joints rubbed, edges sl. used).

First edition of this travel account in 2 volumes by the French engineer Garnier (1839-1904). The first volume, describing the eastern coast of New Caledonia, includes a map of the island and of the penal colony on Île Nou by Malte-Brun, as well as the frontispiece "Halte dans la Brousse" after L. Breton. The second volume, a study of Tahiti and the surrounding islands, includes a map on Tahiti and Moorea. Garnier was a young mineral explorer sent to Nouméa as head of the mines department of New Caledonia in 1863, where he discovered a new green nickel ore, which was named Garnierite in his honor.