(Travel and Exploration, Perouse),La Perouse, Jean Francois Galaup de (1741-1788) a and Labillardiere, Jacques Julien Houton de (1755-

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La Perouse, Jean Francois Galaup de (1741-1788)and Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere (1755-1834) Atlas pour Servir a la Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse. Paris: Jansen & Dien, [1800].
Folio, atlas volume only, engraved title, illustrated with large folding map and forty-four full-page plates, of which fourteen depict botanical subjects after Redoute; three birds after Audebert, and twenty-six portraits and views of native peoples of New Zealand, Papua, New Guinea; Tonga; New Caledonia; and the Moluccas, after the drawings of Piron; slight spotting, some pages thumbed; bound in contemporary half calf and marbled, joints cracked.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

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