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ARAGO, JACQUES-ÉTIENNE-VICTOR. Promenade autour du Monde, pendant les Années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les Corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physiciennecommandées par M. Freycinet. 2 volumes. With atlas containing 25 uncolored lithographed plates and one map, lacking the title and plate list. Together, 3 volumes. Text volumes 8vo, 19th-century boards, uncut and largely unopened, with scattered foxing; atlas oblong folio, 19th-century 1/2 sheep, rebacked, with dampstain in blank upper outer corner throughout and light to moderate foxing on most plates, ink blot in blank portion of a few plates. Paris, 1822
first edition of an epistolary narrative of the French scientific expedition to the Pacific under Captain Louis de Freycinet, written by the official artist on the voyage. In addition to extended portions dealing with Hawaii and Australia the book contains multiple chapters on Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Timor, Guam, and the Mariana and Caroline Islands. Borba de Moraes, page 44; Ferguson 850; Forbes 537; Hill 28.
