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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  111
• Lot Description:
  Dumont d’Urville, Jules Sébastien César. Voyage de la Corvette l’Astrolabe exécuté par Ordre du Roi
  pendant les années 1826 – 1827 – 1828 – 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d’Urville, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Publié Par Ordonnement de Sa Majesté. Histoire du Voyage. [together with] Voyage de la Corvette l’Astrolabe exécuté pendant les années 1826 – 1827 – 1828 – 1829 sous le commandement de M. Jules Dumont d’Urville, Capitaine de Vaisseau. Atlas [Historique]. Text: five volumes in ten parts, octavo, with woodcut illustrations, uncut and partly unopened in the original printed boards. Atlas: three volumes, super royal folio, with engraved title-page in each volume, a portrait frontispiece, and 247 maps and plates as called for (some handcoloured as usual), bound in red quarter morocco and red sides, spine gilt. Paris, J. Tastu, 1830-34.
• Notes:
  First edition. The scientific voyage of the Astrolabe was arguably the most important and the most influential nineteenth-century French voyage to the Pacific. In addition to its comprehensive hydrographical work, especially in New Zealand, the Astrolabe scientists made extensive scientific observations and vast collections of natural history. The outstanding results of the expedition were published in thirteen text volumes and five large atlases from 1830 to 1835. These atlases contain what are generally acknowledged to be some of the finest plates ever produced of the natural history, topography, and anthropology of the Australasian and South-west Pacific. Most of the fine topographical views are after Louis Auguste de Sainson. The official account of the voyage is rarely found complete. The present lot comprises Dumont d’Urville’s complete five-volume narrative account of the expedition, the Histoire, and is accompanied by the complete Atlas Historique. Bagnall, 1687 (part); Davidson, pp. 115-6 (part); Ferguson, 1341 (part); Hill 2, 504 (part); Hocken, p. 47 (part); Sabin, 21210 (part).
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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