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Engraving of Vanikoro captioned 'Monument à la mémoire de Lapèrouse'…
Paris: Didot Fréres, 1836. Engraving, 135 x 220 mm. Charming engraved plate depicting the memorial to La Pérouse erected by the Dumont d'Urville expedition to Vanikoro. The plate was published in Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième partie du monde, revue géographique et ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie.....
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #3509128
Viaggio di La Perouse intorno al Mondo.
Milan: Dalla Tipgrafia Sonzogno e Comp. 1815.
Italian edition with coloured plates
Four volumes bound in two, small octavo, with a folding world map outlined in colour and 16 hand-coloured plates; a nice set in contemporary quarter calf, flat spines gilt. Quite uncommon: the first Italian edition of the voyages...
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4206026
Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde…
Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.
"Vanished trackless into blue immensity"
Four volumes, quarto, and folio atlas, with a portrait, 69 maps and plates (21 folding) in the atlas; the text in fine condition on bluish-tinted paper, completely uncut in modern French period-style blue mottled boards with double labels; the...
Price (AUD):
$42,500.00
Ref: #4504304
Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde…
Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.
"Vanished trackless into blue immensity"
Four volumes, quarto, and folio atlas, with 69 maps and plates (21 folding) in the atlas; the text in fine condition on bluish-tinted paper; text volumes in contemporary or near-contemporary English dark green straight-grained morocco, spines banded and lettered...
Price (AUD):
$36,000.00
Ref: #4504934
A Voyage Round the World…
London: J. Johnson, 1798.
The first English edition
Three volumes, octavo, with 42 engraved plates and maps; contemporary marbled calf, rebacked, double labels; bookplates. First English edition (as has now been demonstrated by Forbes) of the official account of the tragic French voyage. The disappearance of the entire La Pérouse...
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #4504312
![A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1785[-]1788…. Jean François de Galaup de LA PEROUSE](/pictures/thumb/3110001.jpg?v=1434432138)
A Voyage Round the World…
London: J. Johnson, 1798.
First English edition
Three volumes, octavo, with 42 engraved plates and maps; in contemporary sprinkled calf; old bookplates, gift inscription to the Andover Institute Free Library dated 1873 at start of each volume and the library's stamp on p. 51 of each volume. First English edition...
Price (AUD):
$7,250.00
Ref: #3110001
Viaggi di La Perouse Intorno al Mondo.
Livorno: Tipografia Vignozzi, 1827.
With unrecorded plates
Three volumes, duodecimo, three frontispieces and three plates, all with good contemporary handcolouring; contemporary quarter roan binding, lettered in gilt, marbled boards with vellum tips. Attractive early Italian edition of La Pérouse's voyage, containing six charming coloured plates (three of which are not.....
Price (AUD):
$4,400.00
Ref: #4011312
Rélation abrégée du voyage de La Pérouse…
Leipzig: no publisher, 1799.
With a full crew list - including savants and supercargo
Octavo, with an engraved portrait, five plates and a folding world map; contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Abridged account of the La Pérouse voyage, published two years after the official edition. The.....
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4302359
Resa omkring Jorden af Herr de la Perouse…
Stockholm: Johan Pfeiffer, 1799.
The story spreads
Small octavo; in attractive contemporary Scandinavian half calf. Rare Swedish edition of the voyage of La Pérouse, whose fame was so widespread that there was a ready market for accounts of his voyage across Europe and beyond. Within four years of the publication.....
Price (AUD):
$3,400.00
Ref: #3812959
A Voyage Round the World…
London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798-1799.
Best English edition
Total of three volumes, comprising two quarto text volumes with an engraved portrait frontispiece, and a folio atlas with portrait, engraved title and 69 maps and plates; recent black half morocco with gilt lettering and ornament. The best English edition: the...
Price (AUD):
$22,000.00
Ref: #3712657
La Science Populaire… Voyage de La Perouse autour de monde.
Paris: Jules Renouard, 1839.
I, Claudius
Duodecimo, unopened and untrimmed, in the original printed wrappers, Charming account of the La Pérouse voyage for children, with notice of the later discoveries relating to the great French mariner, including chapters on d'Entrecasteaux, Dumont d'Urville and Peter Dillon. These concluding sections concentrate on.....
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #4211256
Des muthvollen Schiffcaptains Jean Francois Galoup, Grafen de la Perouse...
Hamburg: J.G.Sn. Wichers, 1840.
One of the most bizarre and rarest of La Pérouse fantasies
Octavo, 64pp; original printed dark blue wrappers; protective cloth case. An extremely rare La Pérouse fantasy, written in the best tradition of imaginary voyages, and following on from a number of fanciful narratives sparked by.....
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4504215
Loi relative à M. de la Peyrouse, & à l'impression des Cartes par lui envoyées…
Tours: Auguste Vauquer, Imprimeur du Département d'Indre & Loire, 1791.
'Publish what we have'
Quarto, 4 pp., woodblock ornament and drop title; fine and uncut, preserved in modern marbled wrappers. The National Assembly decree calling for the publication of all accounts and charts of the La Pérouse expedition. Three different.....
Price (AUD):
$5,750.00
Ref: #4011316
Loi relative à la découverte des deux frégates Françoises la Boussole & l'Astrolabe…
Paris: l'Imprimerie Royale, 1791.
First formal acknowledgement of fears for the La Pérouse expedition
Quarto, 4 pp., uncut and unbound as issued; in fine condition. The search for La Pérouse was initiated with this French National Assembly decree, in response to a petition from the Société d'Histoire Naturelle. As well.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4505073
Pair of manuscript documents about the provisioning of La Pérouse's ship the Boussole.
Brest: aboard the Portefaix, renaned Boussole, 28 & 31 May 1785.
Outfitting La Pérouse for the Pacific
Two notes in ink on laid paper, 155 x 207 and 155 x 168 mm (the first watermarked 1768); numbered in pencil 273 and 284. A pair of simple but extremely rare documents...
Price (AUD):
$9,750.00
Ref: #4504920
Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas…
London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1829.
In the wake of the Pandora
Two volumes, octavo, plates (two folding, one coloured), and a folding map; plates crisp, in half green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine banded and gilt. The solution of the La Pérouse mystery: an excellent copy of the.....
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #3804541
Voyage aux Iles de la Mer du Sud…
Paris: Pillet, 1830. Two volumes, octavo, three lithographic plates (two folding) and chart of the island of Mannicolo, unopened in original green printed wrappers, housed in folding cloth case. A very appealing copy of the first French edition of the voyage which solved the riddle of La Pérouse, unopened in.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #3712668
La Navigation, Poëme.
Paris: Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1805.
Waiting for La Perouse
Two volumes, octavo, engraved frontispiece and half-title in each volume; nineteenth-century mottled calf, gilt. First edition of Esmenard's epic poem on voyages of discovery generally, and La Pérouse specifically. The work includes a plate of the 'Naufrage des Canots de.....
Price (AUD):
$3,250.00
Ref: #3704934
Portrait of La Pérouse.
London: G. & J. Robinson, 1798. Engraving, 255 x 190 mm. Attractive portrait of La Pérouse, "Commodore in the French Navy, born at Alby in 1741". Jean-Francois de Galoup, Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific...
Price (AUD):
$600.00
Ref: #3007701
La Perouse, A Drama, in Two Acts…
London: Vernor and Hood, 1799.
La Pérouse torn between two wives.
Octavo, 40 pp., recent wrappers, solander case. A light-hearted drama based on the disappearance and conjectured fate of La Pérouse in the Pacific. This is the London-published translation of the German play which had appeared in Leipzig in 1797.....
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #4201772
Atlas of plates for the "Rélation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse"…
Paris: Dabo, Libraire, 1817.
Discovering Venus de Medici and the Wounded Amazon in Tasmania and Melanesia
Folio atlas with engraved title and 44 engraved maps and plates; contemporary quarter dark brown morocco and marbled sides. The 1817 reissue of the Labillardière atlas, unchanged from the first edition of 1800, indeed...
Price (AUD):
$11,250.00
Ref: #4504932
!["Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse]. LA PEROUSE, MAGUE, engraver](/pictures/thumb/3007690.jpg?v=1434432123)
"Célèbre Navigateur Français" [Portrait of La Pérouse].
Paris: Blaisot, n.d., circa 1800.
La Pérouse portrait
Line engraving, 190 x110 mm. (plate size). Fine portrait of the navigator published while his fate was still a mystery. La Pérouse, inscribed "Célèbre Navigateur Français." La Pérouse was born at Albi in 1741 and was commissioned in 1785 by Louis XVI.....
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007690
Portrait of La Pérouse.
Paris: Dufour & Mulat, n.d., but circa 1820. Engraving, 210 x 150 mm. (plate size). A fine portrait. La Pérouse, was born at Alby in 1741. Compte de la Perouse was commissioned in 1785 by the King of France to head an expedition to explore the Pacific Ocean. He was...
Price (AUD):
$450.00
Ref: #3007714
![Esterno Di Una Capanna [The exterior of a Cabin]. Questa Scena fu esequita pel Ballo Pantomimo...](/pictures/thumb/4504990_01.jpg?v=1553913877)
Esterno Di Una Capanna [The exterior of a Cabin]. Questa Scena fu esequita pel Ballo Pantomimo serio Il Naufragio di La Peyrouse…
Milan: Autumn 1825.
Superb expression of the La Perouse myth
Aquatint with original hand colouring, 340 x 390 mm, mounted and handsomely framed. Atmospheric coloured aquatint depicting an evocative scene from the staging of the "Ballet-Pantomime" based on the disappearance of La Pérouse in the Pacific. Between the complete disappearance...
Price (AUD):
$7,850.00
Ref: #4504990