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On the famous voyage of Captain Louis Freycinet

ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor.
Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde. Ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins et de notes scientifiques.

With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author.

With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author.

With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author.

With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author.

With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author.



Paris, Hortet et Ozanne, 1839. 4 volumes. Large 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco, gold-tooled spines. With 2 engraved portraits, one of Jacques Arago and the other of François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates with portraits, costumes and scenes of the life and customs of the peoples of New Zealand, Timor, New Guinea, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, etc., all after drawings by the author. [4], 400; [4], 423 [1 blank]; [4], 399, [1 blank]; [4], 451, [1 blank] pp.

Rare, beautifully illustrated edition of the travel account by the draughtsman of one of the most important voyages of exploration of the early 19th century, the circumnavigation of the l'Uranie under command of Captain Louis Freycinet in the years 1817 - 1820. The voyage was organized by the French government, under the restored Royalty, to show the flag around the world and to make scientific observations on geography, magnetism and meteorology. The official journal of the voyage was published by the captain Freycinet himself, and special accounts on zoology and botany studied during the voyage were published by the doctors Quoy and Gamard, and the pharmacist of the voyage, Gaudichaud.
The present informal account by the artist of the expedition is entertainingly written in the form of letters addressed to a friend in a lively and witty style. Special attention is given to the peoples the artist met with, the plates also  depicting the peoples and the life on the Sandwich Islands, with about 150 pages devoted to Hawaii, Maui and Oahu, the Mariana islands, Timor, New Guinee, Australia, New Zealand, etc. The l'Uranie sailed from Toulon to Gibraltar, Tenerife and Rio de Janeiro. Here the captain's wife Rose secretly boarded the ship, and one of the islands discovered was named after her "Rose Island".
The voyage continued by way of Cape of Good Hope to the Mascarene Islands, Western Australia, Timor, New Guinee, the Mariana islands, Caroline islands, Sandwich islands, New South Wales, New Zealnd, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands where the l'Uranie was shipwrecked. The captain was able to buy the American ship Mercury, which he renamed La Physicienne, and on which he sailed again to Rio de Janeiro and back to Le Havre.
First published in 1822, Arago's account met with much success. The plates for the present popular edition were newly drawn by N. Maurin after the orginal sketchbook by Jacques Arago, who had become blind, and the text was enlarged with scientific notes on natural phenomena by François Arago, member of the Royal Academy, and relative of the author. An edition was also published at Brussels in 1839, not illustrated according to Forbes, illustrated according to Hill. Still a new edition, illustrated with wood-engravings, was published in 1844. Sabin lists up to six editions of the present title, including three with the present lithographed illustrations. But all popular editions seem to be very rare.

Occasionally slightly foxed; large stain on last leaves of the second volume. Fine set.
Forbes 1133 (1 incomplete copy); cf. Borba de Moraes, p. 45 (1844); Hill, pp. 341-342 (Brussel 1839) and p. 177 (1844); Sabin 1866 (1838; 1840; 1843; 1850).

Related Subjects: Australia & New Zealand  Brazil  Cartography  Hawaii  Pacific 

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