Description: 5 volumes of plates to accompany the text, plus 1 atlas of charts. Lacking final volume of zoological plates.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: 5 volumes of plates to accompany the text, plus 1 atlas of charts. Lacking final volume of zoological plates.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

Description: Translation of selections from: Voyage de la corvette Astrolabe. Paris : Tastu, 1830-1833, 13 v. and Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee. Paris : Gide, 1841-1846. 23 v.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Translation of selections from: Voyage de la corvette Astrolabe. Paris : Tastu, 1830-1833, 13 v. and Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la…

Description: "The magnificent record of d'Urville's first circumnavigation as expedition commander, following his voyage with Duperrey in the Coquille, now renamed the Astrolabe in commemoration of La Pe²rouse's missing vessel ... during the three years cruise (1826-9) d'Urville spent 67 days (Jan./Mar. 1827) in New Zealand waters and ashore. From landfall near Cape Farewell he sailed into Tasman Bay, discovered French Pass and made most detailed coastal surveys around Cook Strait on his route up the East Coast to the Bay of Islands, exploring Hauraki Gulf. [With relation to the 5 vols. of Histoire du voyage] apart from background references in vol. 1, vols. 2 & 3 deal almost entirely with New Zealand. Vol. 2 in addition to the journal-narrative of the visit, has a lengthy section on the Maoris (p. 387-573 ... vol. 3, under title, Pie?ces justificatives sur la Nouvell-Ze²lande, is an informed and judicious series of extracts from published material of Cook, De Surville, Crozet, the Missionary register (thoroughly scanned), etc. Much on Marsden, Kendall, Ruatara, Hongi and others"--Bagnall.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "The magnificent record of d'Urville's first circumnavigation as expedition commander, following his voyage with Duperrey in the Coquille, now renamed the Astrolabe in…

Description: "ideal" voyage around the world, with the details of places on the voyage drawn from virtually all the major explorers, from Magellan to Laplace and including Guillaume Bligh. Although the publication uses the very commercial name of the voyaging hero Dumont d'Urville, it is in fact a classic piece of nineteenth-century ghost writing of the kind that might nowadays include an "as told to" author credit. The remarkable series of illustrations is a visual feast of world voyages, and particularly of the Pacific: all the images are sourced from original voyage illustrations, chiefly from the grands voyages, many of them by De Sainson, Dumont d'Urville's artist on the Astrolabe voyage. -- Hordern House

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "ideal" voyage around the world, with the details of places on the voyage drawn from virtually all the major explorers, from Magellan to Laplace and including Guillaume Bligh.…

Description: "Contains a biographical essay on the French navigator Dumont dÆurville (1790-1842) together with a scholarly translation of that part of his diary which was written on board the Astrolabe during her passage through the coastal waters of New Zealand in 1826-27. ... The rest of the book is a translation of the New Zealand section of the French narrative which was prepared for publication by dÆUrville ... and completed in 1835"--Back cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "Contains a biographical essay on the French navigator Dumont dÆurville (1790-1842) together with a scholarly translation of that part of his diary which was written on board…

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Description: An example of d'Urville's passionate enthusiasm for disseminating knowledge gained from the voyages of discovery. Using the device of a fictional vessel (the Kanguroo[sic]) and an imaginary voyager 'emptied of all other interests than those of a traveller athirst for knowledge of the world' (Wright in D719 p.31) he presents a distillation of available information" -- Bagnall 1689.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: An example of d'Urville's passionate enthusiasm for disseminating knowledge gained from the voyages of discovery. Using the device of a fictional vessel (the Kanguroo[sic])…

Description: "An English rendering of the journals of Dumont d'Urville and his officers of their visit to New Zealand in 1840, together with some account of Bishop Pompallier and Charles, Baron de Thierry."--Cover.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: "An English rendering of the journals of Dumont d'Urville and his officers of their visit to New Zealand in 1840, together with some account of Bishop Pompallier and Charles,…

Description: Narrative of Dumont d'Urville's second expedition, by the chief surgeon aboard the ZΘlΘe. Le Guillou had been excluded from the collaboration of talent which produced the official account of the voyage, following a misunderstanding with Dumont d'Urville, and enlisted the help of the artist and writer Jacques Arago to prepare his own account for publication. Arago had been the official artist on the Freycinet expedition, and his book on the Freycinet voyage in its various versions (following Arago's blindness it was published as "Souvenirs d'un aveugle") had proved one of the most popular travel accounts of the first half of the nineteenth century. Le Guillou's book unashamedly follows the narrative style of Arago's, and its lithographs have a distinct similarity to Arago's own somewhat eccentric illustrations. Indeed, the original binding of this coy is inscribed "J. Arago" on its spines, an understandable mistake by the binder since Arago's name is rather larger on the title-page than is Le Guillou's. This first edition of Le Guillou's book appeared in two forms, the other version with its title-page differently worded, beginning with the words "ComplΘment aux Souvenirs d'un Aveugle" - showing even more openly its connection with Arago's earlier book. Priority of the two issues is not certain, although this issue is probably the earlier and certainly seems on the evidence of the few bibliographical listings to be slightly rarer than the other. There were two further editions within two years. The publication was controversial: it was felt to be slighting the memory of Dumont d'Urville and provoked an angry response "Protestation des membres de l'expΘdition au P⌠le austral et dans l'OcΘanie contre une attaque injurieuse α la mΘmoire du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville" published in Annales maritimes et coloniales for 1842. The fine lithograph plates, mostly the work of Legrand, give a quite different picture of the progress of the expedition than the formal published account. The two main visits to Australia - to Torres Strait and Port Essington, and later Tasmania - are both described at length, and each has a lithograph illustration, one a moody image of the two ships careened in Torres Strait, and the other ("Punition des matelots α Hobart-Town") showing a sailor working a treadmill under armed guard -- Hordern House

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: Narrative of Dumont d'Urville's second expedition, by the chief surgeon aboard the ZΘlΘe. Le Guillou had been excluded from the collaboration of talent which produced the…

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE

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Description: narrative of Dumont d'Urville's second, Antarctic, expedition, by the chief surgeon aboard the ZΘlΘe. Le Guillou had been excluded from the collaboration of talent which produced the official account of the voyage, following a falling-out with his skipper, and enlisted the help of the artist and writer Jacques Arago to prepare his own account for publication. Arago had been the official artist on the Freycinet expedition, and his book on the Freycinet voyage in its various versions (following Arago's blindness it was published as "Souvenirs d'un aveugle") had proved one of the most popular travel accounts of the first half of the nineteenth century. Le Guillou's book unashamedly follows the narrative style of Arago's, and its lithographs have a distinct similarity to Arago's own somewhat eccentric illustrations. -- Hordern House

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: narrative of Dumont d'Urville's second, Antarctic, expedition, by the chief surgeon aboard the ZΘlΘe. Le Guillou had been excluded from the collaboration of talent which…

Description: A complete set of a work whose publication was never completed. One of the the rarest and most beautiful of the Grands Voyages. The voyage, led by Duperrey, concentrated on the exploration of the Pacific. The Coquille 'called at Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Concepcion, Callao, and Payta. The Pacific islands visited were the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Tonga, Rotuma, the Gilbert and Caroline Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Australia was visited twice, and explorations made of New Zealand and of the Maoris were of particular significance. Vast quantities of ethnographic and scientific data, were collected, Before returning to Marseilles, Java, Mauritius, and Ascension were visited' (Hill, p90). The scientific data included much on the botany, including plates of seaweed, perhaps the earliest of their kind, and zoology.

Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: A complete set of a work whose publication was never completed. One of the the rarest and most beautiful of the Grands Voyages. The voyage, led by Duperrey, concentrated on…