Voyage médical autour du monde sur La Coquille de 1822 à 1825

£3,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very rare. Born in Rochefort, Lesson entered the navy medical school at 16 and served in the Napoleonic wars. He served as second surgeon on Duperrey’s circumnavigation on the Coquille (1822-25) and was the first European to see birds of paradise in the wild. Lesson was a prolific writer, he contributed to the official

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