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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 #:
  112
• Lot Description:
  Dumont d’Urville, Jules Sébastien César. Voyage de Découvertes de l’Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi
  pendant les années 1826 – 1827 – 1828 – 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d’Urville. Zoologie par MM. Quoy et Gaimard [bound with] Faune Entomologique de l’Ocean Pacifique. Text: five volumes, octavo, uncut in dark violet half morocco of the period, some foxing and stains. Atlas: two volumes, super royal folio, with engraved title-page in each volume and 204 plates as called for (most handcoloured), bound uniformly with the text volumes. Paris, J. Tastu, 1830-33. Rare: text and accompanying atlases of the zoological and entomological section of the Astrolabe voyage. Bagnall, 1687 (part); Davidson, pp. 115-6 (part); Ferguson, 1341 (part; miscounting plates, on which see Renard in the Bremer catalogue, lot 360); Hill 2, 504 (part); Hocken, p. 47 (part); Sabin, 21210 (part).
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 20,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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