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DUMONT D`URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790-1842)

Lot 148
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Lot 148 | DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790-1842)
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DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César (1790-1842)

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée. Paris: Gide, 1841-1854.

A fine set the first edition of this important 'Grand Voyage': a 'sumptuous and impressive production' (Ellis/Mengel). 'The aims of this expedition were to explore the south polar regions and various island groups in the Pacific. The expedition reached the pack ice in January 1838 but failed to penetrate it or get south of the 64th parallel. Returning eastward they visited the South Orkney and South Shetland Islands and discovered Joinville Island and Louis Philippe Land. They then proceeded to Valparaiso and Juan Fernandez Island and landed at Mangareva, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, and Tonga. Proceeding to Fiji, Guam, and Palau, the ships afterwards coasted along New Guinea and circumnavigated Borneo. In 1840, from Tasmania, they returned to the Antarctic region where Adelie Land was discovered. An extensive visit was made to New Zealand. The return voyage took them through the Torres Strait to Timor, La Réunion, and St. Helena' (Hill). Fine Bird Books (1990) pp.92-3; Hill 508 (text vols only); Nissen BBI 556, IVB 449 and ZBI 1200; Rosove 105, 106, 107; Sabin 21256; Spence 399.



23 volumes of text and 6 folio atlas volumes, all uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco, excepting the atlas to the Hydrographie which is bound to match, comprising the Histoire du voyage, Zoologie, Hydrographie, Botanique, Géologie, Minéralogie et Géographie Physique, Physique and Anthropologie thus:



Histoire du Voyage. Paris: 1841-1846. 10 text vols, octavo (228 x 143mm), and 2 atlas vols, folio (545 x 370mm). Text: vols 1, 4 and 5 with the advertisement leaves often lacking in other copies. Atlases: letterpress titles and 2 leaves listing plates, 2 tinted lithographic additional titles, 9 double-page maps and 198 plates (text vols with variable spotting and browning, some gatherings more heavily affected, plate vols with occasional marginal spotting, 15 plates heavily browned). The plates include a mixture of topographical views, views descriptive of events that took place during the voyage and ethnographical portraits of individuals encountered en route.



HOMBRON, J.B. and JACQUINOT. Zoologie. Paris: 1842-1854. 5 text vols, octavo (225 x 143mm), and atlas vol., folio (543 x 377mm). Atlas: letterpress half-title, title and list of plates, 140 plates, most handcoloured or printed in colours and finished by hand, with 10 plates tinted or uncoloured (some browning, with 21 plates heavily affected). There are 29 plates of mammals, 37 of birds, 12 of lizards, snakes and frogs, 5 fish, 25 of insects, 9 of crabs, 20 of shells and 3 of corals.



– Botanique. Paris: 1845-1853. 2 text vols, octavo (225 x 143mm), and atlas, folio (545 x 370mm). Text: complete with the second vol. of 96pp., often wanting in other copies (some light variable browning and spotting). Atlas: letterpress half-title, title and list of plates, 66 engraved plates, of which 20 handcoloured. These latter are of the mosses, lichens and seaweeds (some bronwinbg, with 11 plates heavily affected).



VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, C.A. Hydrographie. Paris: 1843-1851. 2 text vols, octavo (225 x 143mm) and atlas, folio (687 x 529mm). Half-titles. 2 folding engraved maps (some occasional light browning, a couple of gatherings more heavily browned). Atlas: engraved title, table and 57 engraved charts all mounted on guards (some light dampstaining to fore-edges throughout, title and table and a couple of other charts fractionally cut-down at fore-edge, 5 charts with dampstaining in the engraved area, some light even browning with occasional offsetting). Atlas in modern red quarter morocco, bound to match the remaining vols in the set.



GRANGE, J. Géologie, Minéralogie et Géographie Physique du Voyage. Paris: 1847-1854. 2 text vols, octavo (225 x 143mm), and atlas, folio (545 x 370mm). Text: half-titles, folding engraved diagram. Atlas: letterpress half-title, title and table of plates, 4 hand-coloured engraved maps, 2 of which double-page, and 9 lithographic plates (occasional light scattered spotting, more heavily affecting pl. 14).



DUMOUTIER. Anthropologie. Paris: 1842-1854. Octavo text vol. (225 x 143mm), and atlas, folio (bound in Géologie atlas, 545 x 370mm). Atlas: letterpress half-title, title, table of plates and 'Avertissement' leaf, 50 plates of which 47 lithographs on india paper mounted, and 3 engraved plates. These plates are made up of 24 plates of heads after busts taken from life, 21 of skulls, 2 of brains made up from impressions of the interiors of skulls, and the 3 engravings which are of the apparatus ('Céphalomètre') used by Dr Dumontier to obtain measurements.



VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, C.A. & COUPVENT-DESBOIS. Physique. Paris: 1842. Octavo (225 x 143mm). Half-title.



Provenance: General Roullet (engraved armorial bookplates and occasional stamp) – F.G. Coles (20th-century bookplates).

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