Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Corvette L'Esperance : collection de dessins relatifs a leur voyage autour du monde en 1824, 1825 et 1826, sous les ordres de M. le baron de Bougainville, ... / receuillis et publies par M. le vicomte de La Touanne
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Bougainville, Hyacinthe de (1781-1846)
Date: 1828
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First edition of 'This fine series of views ... issued separately nine years before the official account of H. Bougainville's voyage was published' (Hill), including fine views of Singapore, the Philippines, the Bourbon Islands in the Pacific, Australia, Brazil and Argentina.
The son of Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) who had circumnavigated the world in 1766-1779, French naval officer Hyacinthe de Bougainville set sail from France in March 1824 with the ships Thétis and L'Espérance on a diplomatic mission to Réunion, Cochin-China, Pondicherry in the Indian Ocean, Manila and Macao. He returned across the Pacific, retracing his father's previous circumnavigation and, after anchoring at Port Jackson for three months, returned to France via Rio de Janiero.
44 pages, 34 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 cm.
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Borba de Moraes I, 115; Brunet I, 1167; Hill 161; Sabin 6874; Bobins 322; Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 1204.
Publisher: A Paris : Chez Bulla
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Date Added: 2019-08-08
Bougainville, Hyacinthe de. Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Corvette L'Esperance. A Paris : Chez Bulla. 1828.
Bougainville, Hyacinthe de (1828) Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Corvette L'Esperance. A Paris : Chez Bulla.
Bougainville, Hyacinthe de, Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Corvette L'Esperance. A Paris : Chez Bulla. 1828.