FRENCH ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
5 volumes, comprising:
5 volumes, comprising:
1. PAGES, PIERRE MARIE FRANCOIS, VICOMTE DE. Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deux poles par terre et par mer.... Paris: Moutard, 1782. 2 volumes, 8vo. 10 folding maps and plates. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, blue marbled endpapers. Some browning and smudges, library stamps on half-titles and titles of both volumes.
FIRST EDITION This work covers the second voyage of Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Tremarec toward the South Pole in search of "Terra Australis Incognita" as well as Pages' experiences aboard a whaling vessel, with much on whaling and the natural history of the whale. Hill with English edition only; Howgego P7; Sabin 58168; Spence 887.
2. DUMONT D'URVILLE, JULES SEBASTIAN CESAR. Voyage au Pole Sud et dan l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee, execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840. Tome I - Zoologie. Paris: Gide et Cie., 1846. 8vo (242 x 256 mm). Rebound retaining original paper-covered printed boards. Some staining to top board, one gathering browned, ink owner's inscriptions. Text volume I only (of 27 text volumes). Rosove 106-6.A1; Spence 399.
Provenance: Oxford, Bodleian library (armorial bookplate with deaccession stamp).
3. GUILLOU, ÉLIE LE. Voyage autour du Monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville, pendant les années 1837, 38, 39 et 40. Paris: Berquet et Pétion, 1843. 2 volumes, 8vo. 31 plates. Contemporary red morocco gilt over mottled boards. Spotting throughout, armorial ink stamps on flyleaf and half-title.
4. LAUBEL, AUGUSTE. Études Scientifiques. Le Pôle Nord et les découvertes arctiques.... Paris: Librerie Hachette, 1859. 8vo (172 x 110 mm). Modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Light spotting, mostly in margins.
5. RAYNAL, F.E. Les Naufrages ou Vingt mois sur un recif des iles Auckland. Paris: Hachette, 1870. 8vo. Red morocco gilt. Shelfwear, slight browning.
6. RAYNAL, F.E. Wrecked on a Reef, or Twenty Months Among the Auckland Isles. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1874. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco gilt with St. Leonard's School seal on top board. School award presentation inscription on flyleaf. Shelfwear, slight browning.
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5 volumes, comprising:
5 volumes, comprising:
1. PAGES, PIERRE MARIE FRANCOIS, VICOMTE DE. Voyages autour du monde, et vers les deux poles par terre et par mer.... Paris: Moutard, 1782. 2 volumes, 8vo. 10 folding maps and plates. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, blue marbled endpapers. Some browning and smudges, library stamps on half-titles and titles of both volumes.
FIRST EDITION This work covers the second voyage of Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Tremarec toward the South Pole in search of "Terra Australis Incognita" as well as Pages' experiences aboard a whaling vessel, with much on whaling and the natural history of the whale. Hill with English edition only; Howgego P7; Sabin 58168; Spence 887.
2. DUMONT D'URVILLE, JULES SEBASTIAN CESAR. Voyage au Pole Sud et dan l'Oceanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee, execute par ordre du Roi pendant les annees 1837-1838-1839-1840. Tome I - Zoologie. Paris: Gide et Cie., 1846. 8vo (242 x 256 mm). Rebound retaining original paper-covered printed boards. Some staining to top board, one gathering browned, ink owner's inscriptions. Text volume I only (of 27 text volumes). Rosove 106-6.A1; Spence 399.
Provenance: Oxford, Bodleian library (armorial bookplate with deaccession stamp).
3. GUILLOU, ÉLIE LE. Voyage autour du Monde de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée, sous les ordres du contre-amiral Dumont d'Urville, pendant les années 1837, 38, 39 et 40. Paris: Berquet et Pétion, 1843. 2 volumes, 8vo. 31 plates. Contemporary red morocco gilt over mottled boards. Spotting throughout, armorial ink stamps on flyleaf and half-title.
4. LAUBEL, AUGUSTE. Études Scientifiques. Le Pôle Nord et les découvertes arctiques.... Paris: Librerie Hachette, 1859. 8vo (172 x 110 mm). Modern three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Light spotting, mostly in margins.
5. RAYNAL, F.E. Les Naufrages ou Vingt mois sur un recif des iles Auckland. Paris: Hachette, 1870. 8vo. Red morocco gilt. Shelfwear, slight browning.
6. RAYNAL, F.E. Wrecked on a Reef, or Twenty Months Among the Auckland Isles. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1874. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco gilt with St. Leonard's School seal on top board. School award presentation inscription on flyleaf. Shelfwear, slight browning.
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