DUMONT D'URVILLE, JULES SÉBASTIEN CÉSAR, COMTE. 1790-1842.

Voyage au pole sud et dans l'océnie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée. Paris: Gide, 1841-1846.

Voyage au pole sud et dans l'océnie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée. Paris: Gide, 1841-1846.
10 volumes in 5. 8vo (213 x 133 mm). 9 engraved folding maps. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Light wear at extremities, dampstain at ends of spines of two volumes.
Provenance: Frank S. Streeter (1918-2006; bookplate, his sale, Christie's New York, 17 April 2007, lot 172).

FIRST EDITION. Usually treated as a complete work, these were in fact the first 10 volumes of a complete record of the voyage that was issued over thirteen years, from 1841[2]-1855. These volumes comprise the official record of this important exploratory expedition to the Pacific and southern Polar region, and include all those published during Dumont D'Urville's lifetime. After his accidental death in 1842, the work was continued by M. Dumoulin, who added sections on anthropology, botany, geology, hydrography, zoology and physics. Ferguson 3184; Hill 508 (the ten volumes listed as a separate work).