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Essay on chronometry resulting from Roquemaurel's circumnavigation

MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy.
Observations chronométriques faites pendant la campagne de circumnavigation de la corvette La Capricieuse, commandée par M. Roquemaurel, capitaine de vaisseau.

With 4 folding plates.

With 4 folding plates.

With 4 folding plates.

With 4 folding plates.



Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1855. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary grained red half roan. With 4 folding plates. VIII, 139, [1] pp.

With:
(2) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Longitudes chronométriques des principaux points de la cote du Brésil, rapportées au premier méridien de Rio-Janeiro. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1863. 32 pp.
(3) MOUCHEZ, Amédée Ernest Barthélemy. Positions géographiques des principaux points de la cote orientale de l'Amérique du Sud comprise entre la Guyane française et le Paraguay. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1868. [4], 35, [1]. pp.

First edition of an important treatise on chronometry by Ernest Barthélémy Mouchez, who sailed as astronomer in the Capricieuse commanded by Roquemaurel. The work contains extensive technical and methodological information on chronometry and the use of chronometric instruments, followed by observations made during the circumnavigation of the Capricieuse, with detailed notes on the Pacific (Marquesas Islands, Tahiti), Cochinchina, the Sunda Islands, and the coasts of China and Korea.
Bound with two other valuable essays resulting from scientific expeditions along the coast of South America, notably Brazil, with the object of mapping the region more precisely. Ad 2 was extracted from Annales hydrographiques, 1863.
Mouchez, a French astronomer, geographer and naval officer, "worked to improve surveying techniques and promoted the use by the navy of suitable stationary observational instruments" (DSB).

Fine copies.
Ad 2-3: Garraux, Bibliographie brésilienne, pp. 202-3; not in Borba de Moraes; Sabin; Cf. DSB 9, p. 551.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Brazil  Navigation  Pacific  Science  Surveying  Travel & Voyages  Voyages 

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