Full title: An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse : undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France and performed in the years 1791, 1792 and 1793 in the Recherche and Espérance, ships of war, under the command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux / translated from the French of M. Labillardière.

Author/creator: La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de, 1755-1834.

Date: 1800..

Call Numbers: DSM/980/24B1, DSM/980/24B2, Q80/13, DSM/Q980/7C1, Q80/11, Q80/12

Record Identifier: 74VvEJz5LrLX

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: 2 v. ; 24 cm. + 1 volume of plates (6 p., 44 leaves of plates ; 32 cm.)

Publishers: London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1800.

Access: Copyright status: Out of copyright. Please acknowledge: State Library of New South Wales.

Notes: English translation of: Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse. (F307, F308) Vol. 1 includes an index "of the articles of natural history which occur in this work: containing their Linnaean or other scientific name, with the corresponding English or other name by which they are most commonly known." Dixson library copy at: Q80/11 includes a list of the plates contained in Q80/13, with the pages to which they refer. Dixson library copy at: Q80/13 contains plates bound in reverse numerical order. Plate no. 26 is misplaced between nos. 1 & 2. A typewritten list of plates is bound in. Mitchell Library copy at: 980/24B1 has David Scott Mitchell bookplate and is signed, 'D.S. Mitchell'. Mitchell Library copy at: DSM/ Q980/ 7C1 consists of plates illustrating vols. 1 and 2 : chart and plates xxv and xxxv are missing. Mitchell Library copy at: DSM/ Q980/ 7C1 has David Scott Mitchell bookplate. Selected for Digitisation 2013

Citation / references note: Ferguson, J.A. Bibliography of Australia, 311.

Additional physical form availability note: Volume 1 also available online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE3846587. Volume 2 also available online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE3816502.

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