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18226000069On board 1822. Single-page letter on single folded sheet 255 x 195 mm. address panel slightly torn where originally opened at red wax seal; very good. <p><p>An intriguing letter sent from on board Hyacinthe de Bougainville's command the Thétis to Monsieur Bajot who is noted as being the editor of the Annales Maritimes published by the Ministry of the Marine in Paris. Louis-Marie Bajot was associated with the Ministry for most of his life and was the driving force behind the publication of the Annales Maritimes an important annual that published the latest news of naval affairs and regulations together with long articles and notes on voyages and other maritime matters. </p> <p>The naval officer André-Antoine-Émilien Gay baron de Taradel writes that though he is a subscriber he finds that he is missing the recent volumes; he has just embarked on the Thétis and expects to sail shortly just at the moment when he might conceivably profit from having the volumes to hand. The Annales Maritimes first published in 1816 published all manner of notes and articles on all manner of questions relating to navigation including references to the Baudin and Freycinet voyages. Bougainville and the Thétis did sail in July 1822 to Martinique to trial the vessel but did not sail on the circumnavigation until 1824 including making a long stay at Sydney.</p> </p> . unknown
183727506Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1837. Very good overall. An early map of Port Jackson which appeared in de Bougainville's Journal de la Navigation autour de Globe Paris 1837 showing 'Ville de Sidney' and 'Hyde Park' with a key with 13 place names. With soundings marked and a 'Vue de l'entree du Port Jackson' at the upper left. 'Voyage de la Thetis et de l'Esperance' in the upper left corner outside the border and Pl. 52 at the upper right hand corner. <br /> <br /> 25 1/4 x 20". Text below the border 'Grave par Amboise Tardieu d'apres les dessins de M.E.B. de la Touanne Lieutenant de Vaisseau / Ecrit par Besancon / Prix un Franc". Some very slight marginal foxing overal a very clean bright copy. Tooley 982; Libraries Australia ID 2320744. Prime meridian: Paris; Scale indeterminable. Inset: Vue de l'entree du Port Jackson Don 11 N.E. Arthus Bertrand unknown
183714699Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1837. Very good overall. An early map of Port Jackson which appeared in de Bougainville's Journal de la Navigation autour de Globe Paris 1837 showing 'Ville de Sidney' and 'Hyde Park' with a key with 13 place names. With soundings marked and a 'Vue de l'entree du Port Jackson' at the upper left. 'Voyage de la Thetis et de l'Esperance' in the upper left corner outside the border and Pl. 52 at the upper right hand corner. <br /> <br /> 25 1/4 x 20". Re-margined at the bottom border so that the text below the border 'Grave par Amboise Tardieu d'apres les dessins de M.E.B. de la Touanne Lieutenant de Vaisseau Ecrit par Besancon Prix un Franc' is lacking o/w very good clean and bright. Tooley 982; Libraries Australia ID 2320744. Prime meridian: Paris; Scale indeterminable. Inset: Vue de l'entree du Port Jackson Don 11 N.E. Arthus Bertrand unknown
18264102423Paris: Annales des Sciences Naturelles 1826. In fine condition. 12 pp. caption-title; tipped into a modern binding of quarter linen and boards. <p><p>The renowned French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on the platypus: an important study read to the Académie des Sciences and set up in print for publication in the appropriate learned journal. This is a very rare separate offprint paginated 1 to 8 for separate issue rather than simply being clipped from its journal version.</p> <p>Saint-Hilaire here discusses research into the platypus made possible by the delivery of a brace of the monotremes by Hyacinthe de Bougainville commander of the Thétis expedition just returned to Paris from the southern ocean. He discusses work by Shaw in England reports by Péron from the Baudin expedition and work by other eminent naturalists in Europe. The second half of the text is the most controversial occupied by vigorous debate about ideas promulgated by the German naturalist Meckel in his ground-breaking Ornithorhynchi Paradoxi published just weeks previously. Meckel's first full separate study of the animal concentrated on the animal's reproductive system and especially the mammary glands of the female. Saint-Hilaire objected strenuously to this approach asserting that the relevant glands were in fact odoriferous and designed only to attract a mate. Saint-Hilaire was of course plain wrong but that didn't become clear for decades. Meanwhile in the furious debates about the classification of the platypus of the 1820s and 1830s Saint-Hilaire occupied centre-stage. Some years ago we handled the sale of a collection of his manuscript drafts and notes on the subject which showed just how controversial the whole subject became.</p> <p>It was Saint-Hilaire himself who had coined the term "Monotremata" as early as 1803. He had been appointed professor of quadrupeds cetaceans birds reptiles and fish at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in 1793 at the young age of twenty-one. He travelled with Napoleon's campaign to Egypt but it was his long study of the museum's mammalian collection that made him famous and led to comparisons with Cuvier although the two men fell out in 1829. During his tenure he published a series of articles and monographs on the platypus stubbornly holding that it must be a vertebrate and refusing to believe that it could possibly be a mammal.</p> </p> . Annales des Sciences Naturelles unknown
1828LBW-7910[Paris, Bulla, 1828]. 245 x 294 mm ; cachet à froid de l'éditeur François Bulla dans la marge inférieure.
1828LBW-7938[Paris, Bulla, 1828]. 230 x 289 mm ; cachet à froid de l'éditeur François Bulla dans la marge inférieure.
1828LBW-7901[Paris, Bulla, 1828]. 250 x 298 mm ; cachet à froid de l'éditeur François Bulla dans la marge inférieure.
1828LBW-7916[Paris, Bulla, 1828]. 250 x 302 mm ; cachet à froid de l'éditeur François Bulla dans la marge inférieure.
1819E1299K01U79OBrest 1819. Folded leaf 20.6 x 16.5 cm. In French. 2 1/2 pp. text. Interesting letter from the famous French explorer Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Baroness Hyde de Neuville died 1849 the wife of Baron Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville 1776 - 1857 French aristocrat diplomat and politician.In this letter Bougainville refers to an earlier visit with the Baroness on his vessel La Seine which he commanded from 1819-21 and a meeting he had with her and her husband in Washington. He also asks whether she can arrange a new meeting between him and her husband. Small hole in margin not affecting text. Fine letter by the famous circumnavigator Hyacinthe de Bougainvile.l On Bougainville: Howgego1800-1850 B50; on the De Neuvilles: New Jersey Women's History. unknown
1837ABC_47451France 1837. Folded. 1 17.7 x 12 cm; 2 17.7 x 12 cm; 3 15.6 x 10 cm; 4 20.4 x 13.2 cm. All four letters written in French in an early 19th century cursive in brown ink. With the blind-stamped initials "H.B" in the top right corner of each letter. Including:1 Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Gaspar baron Gourgaud.France Saturday 26 September 1835.2 Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Madame Delpeche.France 25 March 1837.3 Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher Ami".France 13 April 1838.4 Autograph letter from Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher Ami" and his best "Comrade".France 16 December 1845. Hyacinthe Bougainville 1781-1846 was a French naval officer son of the famous French Admiral and explorer Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville 1729-1811 who had circumnavigated the world in 1766-1779. Hyacinthe sailed around the world from 1824-1826 on board of the Thétis and the Espérance sent by the Minister of the Navy and the Colonies the Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre. It was virtually a diplomatic mission to Réunion Cochin-China Pondicherry in the Indian Ocean Manila and Macao. Hyacinthe returned across the Pacific and after anchoring at Port Jackson for three months he returned to France via Rio de Janeiro. Hyacinthe de Bougainville became Rear-Admiral in 1838.Ad 1: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Gaspar baron Gourgaud. Hyacinthe complained that he had heard nothing from him since their last "réunion gastronomique" 16 days earlier.Ad 2: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to Madame Delpeche. She was the widow of François Delpeche an engraver who made a portrait of Hyacinthe's father Louis-Antoine de Bougainville in 1837.Ad 3: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher ami". He wrote that he had been presented by the Minister with some others that he didn't know to the King as an option for being made a contre admiral = Rear Admiral. "I am at the head of the list and if I stick to my titles I will be without worry ". He invokes his deeds since 1830 and says that he wants to retire "if I am not done justice; the name I bear does not allow me to serve any longer as a stepping stone for others". Three days before he was told that "le travail" was presented to the King and indeed his appointment followed the same year.Ad 4: Autograph letter signed by Hyacinthe de Bougainville to a "Cher ami" and his best "comrade". De Bougainville asks him a favour regarding the son-in-law of his "second" on the Thétis during his voyage around the globe in 1824-1826.All four letters with faint folding lines and pencil annotations; ads 2 and 4 with glue residue on the last leaf ad 2 with the remnants of a seal and a slight defect to the top corner of the last leaf where the letter was sealed and reopened. Overall in very good condition.l Howgego Encyclopaedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 vol 2 B50. unknown
183756019lithograph EXTREMELY RARE view from "Atlas Journal de la Navigation Autour du Globe de la Frégate la Thétis et de la Corvette l'Esperance pendant les années 1824 1825 et 1826"; pl. 5. REFERENCE: Borba de Moraes I p. 115; Sabin 6874; cf. Ferguson 2236; Ferguson 1204; cf. Hill p. 31; Numa Broc Oceanie 89; cf. Nissen ZBI 483; Howgego B50. Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
1890107586Leipzig: Verlag Von Moritz Ruhl 1890. Hardcover. Good. 4th Edition. iv72pp. Octavo. Blue cloth boards with colour illustration pasted to front. Large colour fold-out illustrations attached to back pastedown intact. Boards bumped and cloth to spine is quite worn and starting to fray near the bottom. Binding is a bit loose. Some minor foxing to title page and fold-out else in fairly good condition. A scarce book detailing the uniform and dress of the German Marines. The fold-out illustrations at the back of the book is especially interesting showing the various uniform details dependent on rank and occasion. 1890 Verlag Von Moritz Ruhl hardcover
1837FA2EGG01U79OParis: Impr. De Rignoux for Arthus Bertrand 1837. Later three-quarter red morocco with the title author and volume numbers lettered in gold on the spine marbled paper sides marbled paper end-papers. With 34 full-page lithographed views and costume plates 12 hand-coloured full-page engraved plates a double-page hand-coloured aquatint 7 engraved maps 1 folding 6 double-page 2 double-page plates and few steel-engraved illustrations in the text. 2 text volumes 4to and 1 atlas volume folio: 545 x 350 mm. First and only edition of a richly illustrated work on the French circumnavigation of the world under command of Baron de Bougainville 1781-1846 son of the great explorer Louis de Bougainville. The goal of the voyage was to extend France's influence in Indochina. However Bougainville also visited Pondicherry Manila Macao Surabaya Sydney Port Jackson Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro. He brought back a collection of natural history specimens from his expedition which was described as one of the most precious and important that had been seen in France.After distinguished service in the Napoleonic Wars Bougainville was promoted to post-captain and given command of the Thétis. She was only the second French frigate to be commissioned for a circumnavigation the first having been his father's vessel the Boudeuse. The voyage took twenty-eight months and the official account was published after a delay of some eleven years. The major purpose of the expedition was political and strategic and Bougainville's first report of 1826 gave the French government a survey of colonial possessions in Asia and of the military strength of Manila as well as accounts of Singapore the Australian colonies and Spanish America. Bougainville's advice was taken into account in the development of French strategy and diplomacy in the Pacific during the 19th century. He also spent several months in and around Sydney where he collected considerable ornithological material. This ultimately resulted in three drawings by Bessa of four species of birds including superb illustrations of the male and female Gang-gang or red-crested parrot.The text contains an account of the voyage. The gorgeously coloured engraved plates show plants and animals including a curious case of Siamese twins a bat an Australian kangaroo a chameleon a "Gymnodactile Phyllure" a fine plate with butterflies and two plates of indigenous plants. The double-page maps of places visited include two double-page plates with views of the coast-lines of the Maldives and the Philippines a folding double-page map of the world showing the routes of De Bougainville's voyage as well as the route his father took in 1766-1769 and a beautiful hand-coloured plate with sailing ships and rowing boats in use in the Chinese Sea and Indian Ocean by China Manilla the Dutch East-Indies and Japan. The lithographed plates show views and costumes of India the Philippines China Cambodia Java Sidney and elsewhere in Australia Chile Rio de la Plata and Brazil.Bound with the original wrappers. The edges and corners of the boards are slightly scuffed the boards are very slightly rubbed. The text volumes are very lightly foxed throughout the atlas is somewhat browned and foxed throughout. Otherwise in very good condition.l Borba de Moraes p. 115; Bosch 416; Chadenat 26; Ferguson 2236; Hill 162; Howgego 1800-1850 B50; Nissen ZBI 483; Rodrigues 440; Sabin 6875. Impr. De Rignoux for Arthus Bertrand, unknown
1889300911-KA18Lille : Desclée De Brouwer et Cie 1889. Hardcover. Good. Original decorated gilt cloth gilt cuts 24 illustrations in b/w small 4to. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.; Corners cover slightly bumped; cover slightly soiled; book plate on upper pastedown. Lille : Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie hardcover
1837WRCAM54770Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1837. Two large quarto text volumes plus folio atlas. Text volumes: vi742; xvi3511652pp. Atlas: 4pp. plus fifty- six engraved or lithographed plates and double-page maps many handcolored. Errata. Lacking front blank in first volume. Half titles. Uniform contemporary half tan diced russia and marbled boards text and altas neatly rebacked preserving original backstrips. Two modern bookplates on each front pastedown minor scattered foxing. Varying degrees of foxing to atlas plates. Very good. First edition of the official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. Hyacinthe de Bougainville son of Louis de Bougainville sailed as an ensign at the age of eighteen on the Baudin voyage. His own expedition of 1826 has continued to be overshadowed by such circumnavigators as Dumont d'Urville. After distinguished service in the Napoleonic Wars Bougainville was promoted to post-captain and given command of the Thétis. She was only the second French frigate to be commissioned for a circumnavigation the first having been his father's vessel the Boudeuse. <br> <br> The voyage took twenty-eight months visiting Pondicherry Manila Macao Surabaya Sydney a stay of almost three months Valparaiso and Rio among other places. Bougainville returned to France with a fine collection of natural history specimens and the official account of the voyage was handsomely published after a delay of some eleven years. The major purpose of the expedition was political and strategic and Bougainville's first report of 1826 gave the French government a survey of colonial possessions in Asia and of the military strength of Manila as well as accounts of Singapore the Australian colonies and Spanish America. He spent several months in and around Sydney where he collected considerable ornithological material. This ultimately resulted in three drawings by Bessa of four species of birds including superb illustrations of the male and female Gang-gang or red-crested parrot. <br> <br> From here both ships crossed to Valparaiso where la Touanne commenced his overland journey to rejoin the expedition at Rio. The account of this journey takes up much of the second volume together with René Primevère Lesson's account of the natural history. Bougainville's advice was taken into account in the development of French strategy and diplomacy in the Pacific during the 19th century. <br> <br> The rare atlas volume includes thirty-four lithographed views and portraits after Adam Sabatier and others from sketches by de la Touanne printed by Bernard & Frey; twelve handcolored engraved natural history plates after Bessa and Pretre by Coutant Legrand Oudet Dumenil and Massard; an excellent double-page handcolored aquatint of various native vessels; a folding engraved world map; two double-page coastal profiles and six double-page engraved maps and charts by Tardieu after de la Touanne. <br> <br> A handsome copy of a historically underappreciated circumnavigation. FERGUSON 2236. HILL 162. FINE BIRD BOOKS p.79. BORBA DE MORAES p.115. NISSEN ZBI 483. SABIN 6875. WHITTELL p.68. WOOD p.251. ZIMMER 83. Arthus Bertrand hardcover books
1844SEG350Paris Comptoir des Imprimeurs Unis 1844 Grands In8 - Demi-chagrins d'époque - dos à nerfs ornés - Frottements sur certains mors et coiffes sans gravité - Complet des 5 grandes cartes dépliantes rehaussées en couleurs et des 100 gravures hors texte sur acier - Rousseurs éparses particulièrement aux Tomes 1 & 2 .Belle condition Tome 1 : 1845 - 363 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Océanie - Voyages de George Anson , de Bougainville et du Cpt Byron Tome 2 : Sd , 393 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 3 : 1844 - 403 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 4 : 1844 - 396 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 5 : 1844 - 396 pages - voyages de Cook Tome 6 : 1844 - 388 pages - Voyage de La Pérouse , du Cpt Baudin , de Freycinet et de Dumont d'Urville Tome 7 : 1845 - 412 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Afrique - Voyages de Bruce Tome 8 : 1845 - 441 pages - Voyage de Le Vaillant Tome 9 : 1845 - 438 pages - Voyage de Mungo-Park , de René Caillié , des frères Lander Tome 10 : 1845 - 439 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Asie - Voyage de Chardin , Voyages aux Indes Orientales Tome 11 : 1844 - 412 pages - Voyage de Macartney , de Klaproth , de Niebuhr , Voyage en Arabie , Voyage à Smyrne Tome 12 : 1844 - 400 pages - 2 cartes dépliantes des Amériques - Voyage de Colomb , Voyage de Cortez , Voyage aux Etats Unis , Voyage en Amérique , Voyage en Morée
1844SEG350Paris Comptoir des Imprimeurs Unis 1844 Grands In8 - Demi-chagrins d'époque - dos à nerfs ornés - Frottements sur certains mors et coiffes sans gravité - Complet des 5 grandes cartes dépliantes rehaussées en couleurs et des 100 gravures hors texte sur acier - Rousseurs éparses particulièrement aux Tomes 1 & 2 .Belle condition Tome 1 : 1845 - 363 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Océanie - Voyages de George Anson , de Bougainville et du Cpt Byron Tome 2 : Sd , 393 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 3 : 1844 - 403 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 4 : 1844 - 396 pages - Voyages de Cook Tome 5 : 1844 - 396 pages - voyages de Cook Tome 6 : 1844 - 388 pages - Voyage de La Pérouse , du Cpt Baudin , de Freycinet et de Dumont d'Urville Tome 7 : 1845 - 412 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Afrique - Voyages de Bruce Tome 8 : 1845 - 441 pages - Voyage de Le Vaillant Tome 9 : 1845 - 438 pages - Voyage de Mungo-Park , de René Caillié , des frères Lander Tome 10 : 1845 - 439 pages - 1 carte dépliante de l'Asie - Voyage de Chardin , Voyages aux Indes Orientales Tome 11 : 1844 - 412 pages - Voyage de Macartney , de Klaproth , de Niebuhr , Voyage en Arabie , Voyage à Smyrne Tome 12 : 1844 - 400 pages - 2 cartes dépliantes des Amériques - Voyage de Colomb , Voyage de Cortez , Voyage aux Etats Unis , Voyage en Amérique , Voyage en Morée
1810S11079Paris:: L'Imprimerie Imperiale 1810. 1810. THREE WORKS IN ONE. 4to. 174; vii 1 272; viii 263 1. Early marbled paper-backed boards; spine rebacked with maroon kozo. Occasional foxing. RARE. Very good. First printing of a "major historical work" – DSB. It was with this work that Delambre initiates his life's work into the history of astronomy that became a standard all started after the present history of mathematics before 1789. Full titles: 1: Rapport du Jury Institue par S.M. l'Empereur et Roi pour le Jugement des Prix Decennaux en vertu des Decrets des 24 fructidor an 12 et 28 novembre 1809 by Institut France. 2: Rapport Historique sur les Progres des Sciences Mathematiques depuis 1789 et sur Leur Etat Actuel Presente a Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi en son Conseil d'etat le 6 Fevrier 1808 par la Classe des Sciences physiques et mathematiques de l'Institut conformement a l'arrete du Gouvernement du 13 Ventose an X by Delambre. 3: Rapport Historique sur les Progres de l'Histoire et de la Litterature Ancienne depuis 1789 et sur Leur Etat Actuel Presente a Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi en son Conseil d'etat le 20 Fevrier 1808 par la Classe d'Histoire et de Litterature ancienne de l'Institut by Dacier. DSB IV p. 17 by I. Bernard Cohen. L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1810. hardcover books
1810S11079Paris:: L'Imprimerie Imperiale 1810. 1810. THREE WORKS IN ONE. 4to. 174; vii 1 272; viii 263 1. Early marbled paper-backed boards; spine rebacked with maroon kozo. Occasional foxing. RARE. Very good. First printing of a "major historical work" / DSB. It was with this work that Delambre initiates his life's work into the history of astronomy that became a standard all started after the present history of mathematics before 1789. Full titles: 1: Rapport du Jury Institue par S.M. l'Empereur et Roi pour le Jugement des Prix Decennaux en vertu des Decrets des 24 fructidor an 12 et 28 novembre 1809 by Institut France. 2: Rapport Historique sur les Progres des Sciences Mathematiques depuis 1789 et sur Leur Etat Actuel Presente a Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi en son Conseil d'etat le 6 Fevrier 1808 par la Classe des Sciences physiques et mathematiques de l'Institut conformement a l'arrete du Gouvernement du 13 Ventose an X by Delambre. 3: Rapport Historique sur les Progres de l'Histoire et de la Litterature Ancienne depuis 1789 et sur Leur Etat Actuel Presente a Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi en son Conseil d'etat le 20 Fevrier 1808 par la Classe d'Histoire et de Litterature ancienne de l'Institut by Dacier. DSB IV p. 17 by I. Bernard Cohen. L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1810. hardcover
18289553<p>lithograph with blind stamp on lower right margin; EXTREMELY RARE view pl. 22 from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Reference: Brunet I-1168 35 pl.; Chadenat II-3684 id.; Sabin 6874 id. Condition: with smudges and water stains affecting plate paper a bit wavy with margin extension on upper right for matting purposes. Condition reflected in price.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
182862274<p>lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE view from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Condition: with paper loss not affecting plate with some smudges and water stains paper a bit wavy.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
182862277<p>lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE view from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Condition: with paper loss barely affecting plate with minimal smudges and water with stains paper a bit wavy.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
182862273<p>lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE view from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Condition: with paper loss barely affecting plate with some smudges and water stains paper a bit wavy.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
182862264<p>lithograph pasted down edition of aquatints. EXTREMELY RARE view from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Condition: with burn marks smudges and water stains paper edge brittle with paper loss on right margin affecting plate.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
182862268<p>lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE view from 'Album Pittoresque de la Fregate La Thetis et de la Covette L'Esperance'. Condition: with minimal smudges and water stains paper a bit wavy with blind stamp at the right bottom of plate. verso text: Pondichéry.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
