LAPLACE, CYRILLE PIERRE THEODORE | Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté, pendant les annees 1830, 1831 et 1832, sur la corvette la favorite ... Atlas hydrographique. [Paris]: Dépòt-général de la Marine, 1833

LAPLACE, CYRILLE PIERRE THEODORE
Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté, pendant les annees 1830, 1831 et 1832, sur la corvette la favorite ... Atlas hydrographique. [Paris]: Dépòt-général de la Marine, 1833

Large folio (25 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.). Title-page, contents leaf, 11 maps on 10 sheets, 8 of which double-page, all engraved; expertly repaired tears. Bound to style in half dark blue morocco and period blue cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands in eight compartments, second and fifth lettered, the others with a repeat decoration in blind.

The large folio atlas to Laplace's Voyage to Indo-China and the South Pacific

"In December 1829, Laplace was commissioned to take an expedition to India, the East Indies and South East Asia, and then, if he chose to do so, proceed through the South Pacific. His instructions were to provide protection for French merchant vessels and obtain at each port-of-call information which might be of value to French trade" (Howgego). Laplace's voyage marked a shift in emphasis from voyages of discovery to politically-motivated expeditions. The Favorite covered some 56,000 miles on her 28- month voyage. The voyage is perhaps best seen to complement Bougainville's circumnavigation.

Published between 1833 and 1839, the complete publications of the voyage comprise five text volumes and two atlases (Album Historique, and the present larger folio Atlas Hydrographique).

REFERENCE: Hill 980; Howgego L-12; Sabin 38985; Ferguson 1669

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