Dumont d' urville

1987 · 143854 — Australia: Melbourne University Press 1987. Hardcover. As new. First Edition. liii 312; xii 313 - 634 pp. Tall octavo. 2 volume set. Contained in dark blue slipcase. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on red cloth spine onlay. Trimmed edges. Black endpapers. Half-title included. Both volumes contain B/W frontispiece of different ships though untitled and unreferenced in contents. Volume 1 contains 27 B/W illustrations on plates 14 in text; volume 2 contains 29 B/W illustrations on plates and 17 in text. Notes biographical index bibliography and index in second volume. Translator's foreword acknowledgments historical background and a biographical note in first volume. Boards and spine undamaged and unblemished. Internally unmarked. Clean as new copies of this first edition set. Rosove 108.A1. First complete translation of the leader's account of this major voyage. Dumont D'Urville was in the Antarctic at about the same time as James Clark Ross and Charles Wilkes. This set was originally published in Australia in 1987 in a very small edition then republished in Hawaii in 1988. These volumes were previously owned by Lieutenant Commander Andrew David and have his bookplates on the front free endpapers. 1987 Melbourne University Press hardcover