Author: LABILLARDIERE, M. [ JACQUES JULIEN HOUTON DE]
Title: Voyage in Search of La Perouse, performed By Order of the Constituent Assembly, during the Years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794. Two volume set.
Description: London, Stockdale. 1800, First English Edition. Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 volume set. 487; 344, 105 pages, plus advertising pages. Lacking the chart of the world in vol. I and plates 29 and 32 in vol. II. Page 301/2 in vol. II is misbound after p. 306, plate 9 in vol. I. has some outlining around the swan. Front and rear covers of volume I detached, split in leather of spine of vol. II. This is the octavo edition. Original binding, leather spines and corners, marbled boards. The 43 plates in this set show indigenous people and the canoes and material culture of Tasmania, New Zealand, Tonga, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and the Solomon islands. Fair.

Keywords: Tasmania to New Zealand, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Java, Mauritius and Back to France.


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