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Book Description:
Gicle.
Paris.
1845, 1845.
79 engraved plates 7 4 fine hand-colored
and 5B&W of rnamiferes, oiseaux, reptiles, poissons, rnollusques and zoophytEs. Half
doth and rnarbled
boards,
p aper label. A fine and clean copy. The atlas volume is one
ci
the most impo rtant French Paófic voyages of the
19th
century. The ostensible
purpog;, of the Du Petit-Thouars expedition was
to
invesligate whale fisheries in the
Pacific; but the objective was, in fact, political in nab.Jre. The expeditio n made
stops
up the coast of South America
to
California, spending the wint er of
1837
there before
visiting Hav1aii, the Marquesas, and Tahiti, as
well
as venturing as far north as
Kamchatka andas far south as New Zealand and Sydney.
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