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180021185London 1800. Very good overall. Copper engraving of two Tlingit women of the Pacific Northwest. Port des Francais is now known as Lituya Bay in southeast Alaska. The engraving depicts the women at the sea coast seated under trees wearing fur cloaks one viewed in profile each with lip plates or labrets. Engraved by Deeves after a drawing by Prior. From Voyage de La Perouse Autour du Monde. 4to 8x 10" paper; 6 1/4 x 8 1/2" image. unknown
179823577London: John Stockdale 1798. First Stockdale edition. Hardcover. Recently expertly rebacked retaining all original materials some toning to text and plates but a very good copy. 2 volumes contemporary full tan calf by H. Faulkner; 20 cxc 290; viii 442 119 pp 51 engraved plates in the 2 volumes including 3 folding maps in first volume. Printed label at upper corner of verso of front free endpaper: "Bound by H. Faulkner George Court Adelphi." The British Book Trade Directory finds a Henry Faulkner Sr. succeded by Henry Faulkner Jr. at a George Court Adelphi from 1790 to 1825. <br/><br/>Originally published in French in 1797 this is one of two English-language translations published in 1798. This edition preceded earlier in the year by the Johnson edition which had only 41 plates. "The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated Pérouse is full of interest in all portions but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast of North America are especially valuable. The mysterious fate of this distinguished navigator has never been satisfactorily cleared up. The above account was transmitted from Botany Bay after leaving this place the expedition was never heard of again" Sabin. In fact recent investigations into the fate of La Perouse have determined that both ships in the expedition were wrecked on the reefs of Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands. Cox I p. 67; Hill 974 observing that "The preface to the Stockdale edition leads one to suppose that the Johnson edition was published slightly earlier; Sabin 38964. John Stockdale hardcover
179843609London: Published as the Act directs Nov 1st 1798. by G.G.& J. Robinson 1798. Folio. 43x 27cm. 17" x 14.5". Atlas Volume First English Edition foliated engraved frontis portrait and engraved title-page 68 fine engraved plates maps charts and views many double page and include several plate illustrations on botanical and ornithological subjects. The plates are numbered 2 - 69 without the world map as usual plates are all very good to fine in contemporary half crimson morocco and marbled boards binding heavily dust worn similar wear on the edges upper hinge loose internally very good to fine condition. The map of the world is sometimes described as wanting however it would usually be in the two volume and is not call for in the list of plates <br /> <br /> ~ ~ ~ Hill #'s 972-979. "La Perouse expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and North West Coast of North America. Hill. "Sabin 38960; Cox I-67. Fine copy of this Important 'Surveying Atlas' to the Pacific and west coast of North America. 1798. The plates are spectacular. - Atlas to the English edition of the report of the famous voyage around the world. Cook Bougainville and La Pérouse contributed decisively to the exploration of the Pacific. <br /> On the unexpected publication of this famous voyage at Paris in the previous year 1797 there was considerable competition among English publishers to bring out the English translation. Three different translations were made and published during 1798-99 and different engravers were employed for making the plates. Stockdale's appeared first in June 1798. Robinson's edition of 1799 is the most esteemed edition in English later editions being usually based on it." The atlas bears the date 1798 in the imprint but was published together with two text volumes in 1799. Published, as the Act directs, Nov, 1st, 1798. by G.G.& J. Robinson unknown
1798175968London. 1798. Engraving on watermarked wove paper 33.3 x 24.9 cm plate mark 42 x 26.6 cm sheet edges a little browned and dusty but a very good dark impression. Fine botanical illustration of the climbing chili prepared for the 'Account of the Voyage of Jean-François Galaup-La Pérouse' 1785-1788 the great but ill-fated French voyage of discovery and exploration. Guillaume Prevost was botanical artist on the ship L'Astrolabe and from a noted family of botanical artists. . unknown
