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Voyages et Aventures de Laperouse…
Tours: Mame, 1839.
La Pérouse condensed for children
Small octavo, engraved title, frontispiece and two other plates; an attractive copy in an early dark roan prize binding embossed in blind and gilt. Attractive copy of the rare first edition of this early children's book relating the voyages and adventures of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,100.00
Ref: #4108618
Relation abrégée du Voyage de La Pérouse…
Leipzig: 1799.
Rare abridgment
Octavo, frontispiece, five plates, and a large folding map; contemporary quarter calf, some wear, front joint starting but otherwise a very good copy, bookplate. Abridged account of the La Pérouse voyage, published two years after the official edition. The preface records all previous Pacific voyagers of.....
Price (AUD):
$2,800.00
Ref: #3712660
La Perouse from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby
London: Charles Knight, circa 1830. Stipple engraving, 140 x 110 mm (plate size). Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Fine. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI to head an expedition to the Pacific.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007938
La Perouse. Engraved…. from a Miniature in the possession of La Perouse's niece at Alby…
London: William Mackenzie, circa 1840. Stipple engraving, 170 x 120 mm (plate size). Good. Almost identical to the portrait printed by Charles Knight (Nan Kivell & Spence p.171), this one has the addition of bushes in the background and the sky. La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007942
Entrée de la rivière de Païou (île Vanikoro).
Vanikoro (Santa Cruz Islands) and ?Paris: c.1838 and possibly worked on later.
La Pérouse's final encampment on Vanikoro
Pencil drawing, 245 x 407 mm; inscribed at the lower left "E. Goupil" and dated 1838; titled as above on mount. This fine original drawing from the Dumont d'Urville expedition of 1837-1840.....
Price (AUD):
$40,000.00
Ref: #4504840
Éloge de la Pérouse…
Paris: Firmin Didot, 1823.
La Perouse eulogy
Octavo, 46 pp., with some of the foxing endemic to some French books of this period; very good in recent blue paper boards with morocco label. Very rare eulogy to La Pérouse published some thirty-five years after the disappearance of his two vessels.....
Price (AUD):
$5,950.00
Ref: #3902034