Lot 392
D'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni
Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 26 May 2010 at 12:00 BST
Description
Voyage de D'Entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse... rédigé par M. de Rossel, ancien capitaine de vaisseau. Paris: l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 2 volumes bound in 3, 4to [iv], [i] - lvi, 520; 521-704; [iv], viii, 692, 33 engraved plates in text volumes, and atlas folio (553 x 420mm.), atlas with engraved title, table and 39 engraved charts and maps (29 double-page or folding), small marginal tear to plate 16, atlas mid nineteenth century calf, joints slightly rubbed and cracked at head and tail of spine, text contemporary calf, spines gilt, Northern Lighthouse Board gilt stamp to head of spines; half-titles in text volumes, atlas with slight spotting to title, light offsetting to a few charts, two small rust holes to A1 of volume 1, head of spine of volume 1 very slightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: This is the official commander's account of the search for La Pérouse, published posthumously, edited from his manuscripts by Rossel, the last commander of the expedition. The twelve fine maps of Western Australia and Tasmania in the fine Atlas record much of these coasts accurately for the first time. It was d'Entrecasteaux's explorations of 1792 and 1793 which focused attention on the Derwent River area (now Hobart) as a suitable place for settlement. Davidson, p. 104; Ferguson, 443 & 461; Hill, p. 97
Provenance: To be sold on behalf of the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust.