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PARIS (François-Edmond) Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra
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PARIS (François-Edmond) Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens ou Collection des navires et pirogues.
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1843]. 2 volumes (text + atlas) in-folio, contemporary purplish half-chagrin with corners, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title and fillets (spines faded, rubbed| sections 1 to 20 uniformly browned, some plates browned, some freckling).
First edition of this important treatise on the pirogues and boats of the indigenous populations of America, Asia and Oceania, originally published in 13 issues.
The illustration includes 133 plates (76 lithographed by Sabatier, Lehnert and Mozin) of ships and pirogues built by the inhabitants of Africa, Arabia, Malabar, Coromandel, Ceylon, Bengal, Cochinchina, China, Philippines, Malaysia, New Guinea, New Holland, New Zealand, New Ireland, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Burmese coast, the Gulf of Siam, the Carolinas, Santa Cruz, Viti, Tonga, Taïti, Po-Motou, Nouka- Hiva, Hawaii, Kamtschatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Loyalty
Loyalty Islands, the northwest coast of America, South America and Greenland, all drawn and measured by Lieutenant-Commander François-Edmond Pâris during his round-the-world voyages.
A naval officer, François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893), now considered the founder of nautical ethnography, took part in the voyages of the Astrolabe (1826-1829), with Dumont d'Urville in search of La Pérouse, as well as those of the Favorite (1830-1832) and the Artémise with Laplace.
[3] f. (title, preface), 156 pages + [1] f. (title), 133 plates (numbered 1-132 and 25 bis), [1] f.
(table of plates).
PROVENANCE
Maréchal Soult, duc de Dalmatie, pair de France, 1769-1851 (engraved armorial ex- libris)| baron Reille (stamp on title)| Le baron
René Reille (1835-1898), grandson of Marshal Masséna, married Geneviève Soult de Dalmatie, granddaughter of Marshal Soult, in 1860.
(Polak 7321| Sabin 58593| Brunet IV, 371)
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, [1843]. 2 volumes (text + atlas) in-folio, contemporary purplish half-chagrin with corners, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title and fillets (spines faded, rubbed| sections 1 to 20 uniformly browned, some plates browned, some freckling).
First edition of this important treatise on the pirogues and boats of the indigenous populations of America, Asia and Oceania, originally published in 13 issues.
The illustration includes 133 plates (76 lithographed by Sabatier, Lehnert and Mozin) of ships and pirogues built by the inhabitants of Africa, Arabia, Malabar, Coromandel, Ceylon, Bengal, Cochinchina, China, Philippines, Malaysia, New Guinea, New Holland, New Zealand, New Ireland, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Burmese coast, the Gulf of Siam, the Carolinas, Santa Cruz, Viti, Tonga, Taïti, Po-Motou, Nouka- Hiva, Hawaii, Kamtschatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Loyalty
Loyalty Islands, the northwest coast of America, South America and Greenland, all drawn and measured by Lieutenant-Commander François-Edmond Pâris during his round-the-world voyages.
A naval officer, François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893), now considered the founder of nautical ethnography, took part in the voyages of the Astrolabe (1826-1829), with Dumont d'Urville in search of La Pérouse, as well as those of the Favorite (1830-1832) and the Artémise with Laplace.
[3] f. (title, preface), 156 pages + [1] f. (title), 133 plates (numbered 1-132 and 25 bis), [1] f.
(table of plates).
PROVENANCE
Maréchal Soult, duc de Dalmatie, pair de France, 1769-1851 (engraved armorial ex- libris)| baron Reille (stamp on title)| Le baron
René Reille (1835-1898), grandson of Marshal Masséna, married Geneviève Soult de Dalmatie, granddaughter of Marshal Soult, in 1860.
(Polak 7321| Sabin 58593| Brunet IV, 371)