The Voyage of Astrolabe 1826-1829 [2 vols.] An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain Jules S-C Dumont D'urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the Corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the Corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Volume 1 : Astrolabe 1826-1829 ; Volume 2 : Astrolabe and Zelee 1837-1840
by Helen Rosenman
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Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988. Hardcover. First American Edition. liii, 312; xii, 321 pp. Tall octavo. 2 volume set. Contained in dark blue slipcase. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on red cloth spine onlay. Trimmed edges. Black endpapers. Half-title included. Both volumes contain B/W frontispiece of different ships, though untitled and unreferenced in contents. Volume 1 contains 27 B/W illustrations on plates, 14 in text; volume 2 contains 29 B/W illustrations on plates and 17 in text. Notes, biographical index, bibliography and index in second volume. Translator's foreword, acknowledgments, historical background, and a biographical note in first volume. Boards and spine undamaged and unblemished. Internally unmarked. Clean, as new copies of this two volume reprint of the original 1987 set. The translation of a condensed history of Dumont d'Urville's two major voyages of discovery to the South Pacific omitting all the scientific results and d'Urville's search for relics of the la Perouse expedition at Vanikoro. 1987
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- The Voyage of Astrolabe 1826-1829 [2 vols.] An Account in Two Volumes of Two Voyages to the South Seas by Captain Jules S-C Dumont D'urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania 1826-1829 in the Corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand and Torres Strait 1837-1840 in the Corvettes Astrolabe and Zelee. Volume 1 : Astrolabe 1826-1829 ; Volume 2 : Astrolabe and Zelee 1837-1840
- Author
- Helen Rosenman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0824812239
- ISBN 13
- 9780824812232
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Voyages and Exploration|Pacific Voyages|French Voyages|la Perouse
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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