[Rarebooks] FS: Dumont d'Urville's profusely illus. "Voyage... Autour de Monde." 2nd ed. 1839

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(TRAVEL) Dumont d’Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar. VOYAGE PITTORESQUE AUTOUR 
DU MONDE. Resume General des Voyages de Decouvertes de Magelan, Tasman, 
Dampier... Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver... Accompagne de Cartes 
et de Nombreuse Gravures en Taille-douce sur Acier, d’Apres les Dessins de M. 
De Sainson... Paris: Furne et Cie, Libraires-Editeurs. 1839. Second edition. 
Lg. 4to. 2 vols. (4),viii,576;(4),584pp. Index. Double column text. Profusely 
illustrated with engraved portraits, 274 plates, and 4 folding maps. Cont. 
green calf, gilt decorated spines (faded to olive), over marbled boards. 
Occasional light foxing.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The folding maps are of Tahiti, the South Pacific (including Australia), 
Tonga, and New Zealand. All of the maps and engravings are from drawings by De 
Sainson, the artist aboard “The Astrolabe.” See THE HILL COLLECTION #505.

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