Histoire Abrégée des découvertes des Capitaines Cook, Wilson, La Pérouse [Labelled "Livre d'Explication pour les découvertes des Capitaines Cook, Wilson, et la Pérouse"]…
Histoire Abrégée des découvertes des Capitaines Cook, Wilson, La Pérouse, etc. etc. [Labelled "Livre d'Explication pour les découvertes des Capitaines Cook, Wilson, et la Pérouse"]. Contenant la description des moeurs, coutumes, usages, habillemens, fêtes, mariages, supplices, funérailles, etc. des divers peuples sauvages qui habitent les bords et les isles de la mer du Sud. Accompagnée d'un tableau répresentant les differens peuples de cette partie du monde, chacun dans le costume et 1'attitude qui lui est propre; entouré des productions du climat, etc. etc. Et encadré d'un arabesque composé des differens attributs propres au pays.
Paris: chez l'auteur... A Bordeaux, chez la citoyenne Saint-Sauveur... An VI (1797-1798).
Quarto, 60 pages, with the half-title; a large copy with wide margins, completely uncut, in the original publisher's marbled blue-green boards with printed paper label on front cover.
Explanatory companion to the ethnological "Tableau" by Grasset
Very scarce separately-published companion piece to Grasset de St-Sauveur's "Tableau des découvertes du Capne. Cook & de La Pérouse", his famous depiction of the various peoples of the Pacific. This fairly long printed text adds the essential details that cannot be shown in in the visual images of the manners, traditions, dress, celebrations, weddings, tortures, funerals, and so on, of all the 24 original inhabitants illustrated in the tableau. Eight years later a similar piece was prepared as a companion volume for the Dufour panorama "Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique".
Very scarce separately-published companion piece to Grasset de St-Sauveur's "Tableau des découvertes du Capne. Cook & de La Pérouse", his famous depiction of the various peoples of the Pacific. This fairly long printed text adds the essential details that cannot be shown in in the visual images of the manners, traditions, dress, celebrations, weddings, tortures, funerals, and so on, of all the 24 original inhabitants illustrated in the tableau. Eight years later a similar piece was prepared as a companion volume for the Dufour panorama "Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique".
The introduction includes a summary of the voyages of Cook and La Pérouse and refers to Wilson at the Pelew Islands. Then appear articles on Nootka, New Zealand, Prince William Sound, Easter Island, Norton Sound (Alaska), the Hawaiian Islands, Tana (Vanuatu), Santa Christina (Marquesas), Baie de Castries (De Kastri, Siberia), Port des Français (Lituya Bay, Alaska), Maouna (Samoa), Macao, Langle Bay (Tomari, Russia), Concepción (Chile), Manila, Pelew Islands, Unalaska, Ulietea (Society Islands), the Marquesas, Friendly Islands, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Annamooka (Tonga), and Hapaee (Tonga).
A table at the end makes the specific references to the figures in the Tableau, arranged by the three rows into which the print is divided. The text also appeared as a part of Grasset's larger work to accompany his five-part "Tableaux des principaux peuples" (Paris, 1798, Forbes 281, though not seen by him). That this is a genuine separate issue is confirmed by the printed paper label on the original binding.
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Beddie, 258 (noting copies in the Dixson Library and in the State Library of Victoria); Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 271.
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