Voyage pittoresque autour du monde. Résumé général des voyages de découvertes de Magellan, Tasman (...).

2 vol., lge 8vo: viii-576, 584 pp. (some sl. spotting throughout).

Quarter calf (corners bumped), gilt spine on 4 raised bands (joints rubbed, spine det. in vol. I), marbl. edges. Good copy.

First edition of this selection of important voyages of pacific discovery, compiled by Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842). Steel engr. ill.: frontisp. in each vol. showing 8 portraits of famous seafarers, 6 fold. maps (Hawaii, Tahiti, world map, the Pacific, Tonga, New Zealand) and many (250+) pl., mostly 2 to a page, depicting exotic landscapes and scenes, indigenous people and buildings, after the drawings L.A. De Sainson made during Dumont d'Urville's celebrated voyage in The Astrolabe (1826-1829, 1830-1834). Ref. Brunet II:882. - Bn Opale plus. Joined: 4 other works of voyage and discovery: Grasset-Saint-Saveur, J. - Tableaux des principaux peuples de l'Europe, de l'Asie, de l'Afrique, de l'Amérique et les découvertes des capitaines Cook, (...). Paris, chez l'auteur, an VI [1798], 5 parts in 1 vol., sm. 4to, green half shagreen. With 4 fold. tables ("division générale"), but lacking the 5 engr. col. fold. tables depicting indigenous people and their costume. Ref. Colas 1301. - Cohen 678. - Bn-Opale plus. - Breton, E. - Monuments de tous les peuples, décrits et dessinés d'après les documents les plus modernes. Paris, Librairie Ethnographique (T. I); Bruxelles, Librairie Historique-Artistique (T. II), 1843 (T. II)-1846 (T. I), 2 vol., 8vo, half shagreen. Mixed edition set with 150 (59, 91) full-page wood engr. pl. and numerous ill. in text. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Hombron, M. - Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs, coup d'oeil autour du monde (...). Paris, Belin-Leprieur and Morizot, s.d. [1847], 8vo (some spotting), half shagreen, a.e.g. Vol. II only. Ill. with 25 full-page pl. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. - Charton, E. - Voyageurs anciens et modernes. Paris, Magasin pittoresque, 1854-1857, 4 vol., 8vo, quarter shagreen, marbl. edges. Full set with ca. 1000 b.w. ill. Ref. Bn-Opale plus. (10 vol.)