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183756113<p>lithograph. 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. 15. 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. Condition: with slight foxing.</p> Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
182862275<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 minimal smudges and water stains paper a bit wavy.</p> Vicomte de la Touanne / Bulla, Editeur, Paris.
183756123<p>lithograph 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. 25; 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. Condition: with heavy foxing.</p> Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
18379583<p>lithograph laid on India paper. EXTREMELY RARE view by Arthus Bertrand Paris. Baron de Bougainville 1781-1846 was a French naval officer the son of famous voyager Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. He became Rear-Admiral in 1838. The unachieved main intention of the voyage was: to extend French influence in Indochina but Manila Sydney and Rio de la Plata areas were also visited and documented with these superbly executed artworks published nine years before the official account of the voyage. Condition: shaved top margin slight image smudges and margin paper loss paper toning.</p> Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
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
2080202105400058Kumamoto Prefecture Bougainville Island Survivor Association N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 296p Size: 22cm Kumamoto Prefecture Bougainville Island Survivor Association paperback
#[34638]London 2002. 8vo. Cloth with dust-jacket. With 11 maps and plates. LXXVII322 pp. Hakluyt Society 3rd series 9. - Although Bougainville published an account of his voyage in 1771 his original journal was published only in 1977; the present volume makes the latter text available for the first time in English translation. hardcover
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183756115<p>lithograph laid on India paper. 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. 13. 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. Condition: with foxing & paper toning.</p> Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
183756108<p>lithograph. 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. 10. 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.</p> Arthus Bertrand, Paris.
