LOT 56 Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825... Zoologie, par MM. Lesson et Garnot, 5 vol. (4 text; atlas), Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826-1830 DUPERREY (LOUIS ISIDORE)
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DUPERREY (LOUIS ISIDORE)
Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825... Zoologie, par MM. Lesson et Garnot, 5 vol. (4 text; atlas), atlas with engraved title and 157 engraved plates after J.G. Pretre and others, mostly printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue guards, text volumes with half-titles, titles 1-3 with engraved vignette, pages uncut, some spotting, modern green half morocco, gilt lettering and bird device on spine, all 27 original parts front wrappers bound in at end [Anker 288; Great Bird Books, p.93; Hill 517; Nissen ZBI 1210; Sabin 21353; Zimmer, pp.186-187], text 4to (312 x 240mm.) and atlas folio (490 x 325mm.), Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826-1830
|The zoological section of the official report of "one of the major French Pacific voyages of the nineteenth century" (Hill), mostly written by the expedition's surgeon René Primevère Lesson. Provenance: De Goederen, Amsterdam, 14 December 1956.
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