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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 #:
  160
• Lot Description:
  Lesson, René Primevère. Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement sur la Corvette La Coquille
  par P. Lesson, Membre correspondant de l’Institut. Two volumes, octavo, 19 handcoloured natural history plates, and 23 engraved plates (three folding), parts of the text and the uncoloured plates are foxed as is usual with this work, half calf of the period, vellum tips. Paris, P. Pourrat Frères, 1839.
• Notes:
  The ‘deluxe’ issue with the fine natural history plates coloured by hand. The official account of the 1822-5 voyage in the Coquille under Louis Isidore Duperrey was never published and so this scarce account by the surgeon and naturalist on the Coquille is the only separate narrative account. Lesson reported many important scientific details which Duperrey failed to publish in his incomplete account, including many extensive vocabularies and grammatical analyses, particularly of the Maori Language. The illustrations in Lesson’s work include over twenty plates of views, native costumes, objects and tools, as well as coastal profiles, while the beautiful, delicate handcoloured plates include illustrations of the kangaroo, kiwi, lyrebird, opossum, parrots, platypus, wombat, and several Birds of Paradise. Bagnall, 3134; Davidson, pp. 113-5 (corrected above); Dunmore, II, 109 – 155; Ferguson, 2787(rev); Hill 2, 1012; Hocken, p. 73; Sabin, 40214.
• Estimate:
  A$4,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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