Full title: Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde / publié conformément au décret du 22 avril 1791, et rédige par M.L.A. Milet-Mureau, Générale de Brigade dans le Corps du Génie, Directeur des Fortifications, Ex-Constituant, Membre de plusieurs Sociétés littéraires de Paris.

Author/creator: Milet-Mureau, L. A. (Louis Antoine), 1756-1825, Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820, Pingré, Alexandre Guy, 1711-1796, La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788.

Call Numbers: DSM/X980/3, RB/DQ990A/2, SAFE/X79/2, SAFE/X79/1, Q79/22, Q79/21, RB/Q538, RB/DQ990A/1, SAFE/X79/3, Q79/23, Q79/24, RB/Q537, RB/DQ990A/3, MRB/Q980/L, RB/DQ990A/4, X980/3A

Record Identifier: 74VKJj54lEN3

Language: French

Formats: Books

Contents: 4 volumes ; 30 cm. + 1 atlas (69 leaves of plates ; 59 cm.), , , , , Summary of volumes -- Volume 1: includes all preliminary instructions, memoirs, etc. relative to the expedition. -- Volumes 2 and 3: Journal of Lapérouse and tables of the routes of the Boussole and the Astrolabe. -- Volume 4: Supplementary memoirs, letters, etc. -- Accompanying atlas includes charts with ship's tracks and soundings, and plates of botanical and ornithological studies, and views of various harbours, and scenes showing the peoples and marine crafts, encountered throughout the journey, including a scene showing the massacre of expedition members at Tutuila Island, American Samoa., Chapter at volume 1 pages 256 - 323, entitled, "Relation d'un voyage intéressant de la frégate la Princesse, de Manille à Saint-Blaise, en 1780 et 1781," has been translated from the Spanish of F.A. Maurelle by A.G. Pingré., Chapter at volume 1 pages 324-342, entitled, "Extrait de la relation d'un voyage fait en 1779, par Don François-Antoine Maurelle ... pour la découverte des côtes occidentales de l'Amérique Septentrionale", extract by Don François-Antoine Maurelle.

Publishers: Paris : Imprimerie de la République, an V. [1797].

Access: To be issued in Special Collections.

Notes: Atlas has engraved half-title. SAFE/X79/1 Selected for Digitisation 2019. Call nos. Q79/21; Q79/22; Q79/23; Q79/24 selected for digitisation 2019. Voyage de La Perouse fait dans les Annees 1785, 86, 87, et 88, Exhibited in: Crux. Rare maps from the State Library of NSW. Dixson Library copy at SAFE/X79/3 has typescript note: In this volume all the plates (not maps) except nos. 18, 30 and 32 - which are views of the coast-lines - are in duplicate; one copy being on thinner paper than the other. Mitchell Library set at MRB/ Q980/ L and atlas at DSM/X980/3 all signed, 'D.S. Mitchell'. Dixson Library copy (atlas) at SAFE/X79/1: Has hand-coloured plates throughout. Mitchell Library copy (atlas) at X980/3A: Has hand-coloured plates throughout. Mitchell Library copy (atlas) at X980/3A: Has stamp, 12 August 1971 Mitchell Library donation. Rare Books copies at RB/Q537-8: Have acquisition stamp: "Public Library NSW .. 11 May 1960 Donation: Knox Collection". Rare Books copies at RB/DQ990A/1-4: Have acquisition date annotated at gutter: "6-12-89 4 vols & atlas ... A&R". Dixson Library copy at SAFE/X79/2: Has the bookplate of Sir William Dixson, in addition to acquisition date annotated at gutter: "6-12-89 4 vols & atlas ... A&R".

Citation / references note: Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 251 Phillips, 688

Additional physical form availability note: Online at the State Library of NSW. Online at the State Library of NSW. Online at the State Library of NSW. Online at the State Library of NSW. Online at the State Library of NSW.

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DDC: 910.41

MMS ID: 991022299229702626