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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 #:
  61
• Lot Description:
  La Pérouse, Jean François Galaup de. The Voyage of La Pérouse round the World
  in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the nautical tables...Two volumes, octavo, with 51 plates and maps (these a little foxed or marked at the edges), bound in calf of the period, the first volume well rebacked retaining the original spine. London, John Stockdale, 1798 – [1800].
• Notes:
  First English edition. The expedition under Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse in the Boussole and the Astrolabe was one of the most important scientific explorations undertaken in the eighteenth century, planned as the French answer to Cook’s third voyage. The main purpose of the expedition was exploration and discovery, especially of the imperfectly known Asiatic coast of the Pacific, but La Pérouse was also instructed to evaluate the possibilities of future French expansion into the Pacific and north-east Asia. The greatest contribution of the expedition was the navigation and charting of the Asiatic coasts of the Pacific. It was while there, at Kamchatka, that La Pérouse received further orders to sail for New South Wales to report on British plans for settlement there. He arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788, just a few hours after the First Fleet under Governor Arthur Phillip had landed. After six weeks at Botany Bay, where relations between the French and English expeditions were cordial, the Boussole and the Astrolabe sailed into the Pacific and disappeared without trace. Although the tragic disappearance of the expedition has tended to eclipse La Pérouse’s accomplishments, he forwarded copies of journals whenever possible which has ensured the survival of much of his narrative. The loss of the expedition was one of the great mysteries of eighteenth-century navigation and for decades a matter of intense interest, especially in France, with many pamphlets, speculations and fictions published concerning the possible fate of the expedition, while editions and translations of La Pérouse’s own account were published and republished throughout Europe. Clancy, 9.1; Davidson, pp. 100-1; Dunmore, I, pp. 250 – 282; Ferguson, 269; Forbes, 287; Sabin, 38964.
• Estimate:
  A$1,500 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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