ARAGO, JACQUES ETIENNE VICTOR. 1790-1855.
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycine, during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London: Treuttel and Wurz, 1823.
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycine, during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London: Treuttel and Wurz, 1823.
2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (256 x 208 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece map, 25 lithographed plates (2 folding). Modern half brown morocco and brown cloth. Frontispiece map reinforced on verso, scuffing, minor spotting.
THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Arago was the official artist to the expedition organized by the French government, under the leadership of Captain Freycinet, to take chronometric and magnetic observations in varying latitudes. A lively account of their expedition, accompanied by Arago's naturalistic drawings, a month-long stay in the Sandwich Islands, visiting Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu, and the Falkland Islands, where the Uranie was wrecked and the Physicienne purchased to replace it. The narrative focuses on the scenery, people and natural history of the Pacific, in contrast to the complimentary scientific results of the expedition which were published separately by Freycinet as Voyage autour du Monde. in 1824-1826. Ferguson 8885; Forbes 562; Hill 298; Sabin 1865.
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Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycine, during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London: Treuttel and Wurz, 1823.
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, Commanded by Captain Freycine, during the Years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820. London: Treuttel and Wurz, 1823.
2 parts in 1 volume, 4to (256 x 208 mm). Engraved folding frontispiece map, 25 lithographed plates (2 folding). Modern half brown morocco and brown cloth. Frontispiece map reinforced on verso, scuffing, minor spotting.
THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Arago was the official artist to the expedition organized by the French government, under the leadership of Captain Freycinet, to take chronometric and magnetic observations in varying latitudes. A lively account of their expedition, accompanied by Arago's naturalistic drawings, a month-long stay in the Sandwich Islands, visiting Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu, and the Falkland Islands, where the Uranie was wrecked and the Physicienne purchased to replace it. The narrative focuses on the scenery, people and natural history of the Pacific, in contrast to the complimentary scientific results of the expedition which were published separately by Freycinet as Voyage autour du Monde. in 1824-1826. Ferguson 8885; Forbes 562; Hill 298; Sabin 1865.
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