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18274011312Livorno: Tipografia Vignozzi 1827. Three leaves a little short at the margins printer's error a little foxing but very good. Three volumes duodecimo three frontispieces and three plates all with good contemporary handcolouring; contemporary quarter roan binding lettered in gilt marbled boards with vellum tips. <p><p>Attractive early Italian edition of La Pérouse's voyage containing six charming coloured plates three of which are not recorded in the standard bibliographies. The first of these unrecorded plates is a costume study captioned "Uomo e Donna volgari della Concezione"; the second a view of Macao and the third depicts the death of botanist and savant Robert de Lamanon amidst a melée in Samoa during 1787. Neither Ferguson Forbes nor McLaren note the three plates additional to the frontispieces. Forbes did not in fact manage to inspect a copy of the book. Ferguson cites his own copy while McLaren consulted the Nan Kivell copy held by the National Library. </p> <p>This edition was part of a larger collection of voyages published in uniform duodecimo format with the series title Biblioteca Istruttiva e Piacevole ovvero raccolta dei più interessanti viaggi. Forbes confirms that each of the voyages was available separately. The spines in this set number the volumes within the series.</p> </p> . Tipografia Vignozzi unknown
1801843601801. LA PEROUSE Jean Francois. A Voyage Round the World. Performed in the Years 1785 1786 1787 1788.TO which are added A Voyage from Manilla to California by Don Antonio Maurelle: and an Abstract of the Voyage and Discoveries of the Late Capt. G. Vancouver. Boston: Joseph Bumstead 1801 333pp. Contemporary full leather morocco spine label skillfully rebacked. Some toning throughout else very good. Hill 976. Sabin 38966. Howes L-93. Forbes 331. Shaw & Shoemaker 789. Ferguson 333. Reese Best of the West 20. Kroepelien 1331.The rare first American edition of one of the most important Pacific voyages. The La Perouse account was first published in Paris in French in 1797 and in English in 1798. This is one of the earliest Pacific voyages to appear in an American edition and published much less modestly than the French and British editions would have been the way the average American would have learned about La Perouse's important surveys of the Pacific coast and his descriptions of native Americans there. This is also the first American version although only a precis of Vancouver's voyage first published in London in 1798. The 1781 voyage of Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle incorrectly spelled in this edition's title went from the Philippines to the South Pacific where he explored in the vicinity of New Guinea and the Tonga Islands before sailing to Mexico. Howes is inaccurate in his pagination of this edition and the Hill copy contains a map that was added later. unknown