Panorama de la baie de la Poste (Ile de la Floriana, Galapagos).

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Taken from the Atlas Pittoresque to du Petit-Thouars’ account of the Vénus expedition. This was one of the great French circumnavigations of the early nineteenth century, and enabled France to demonstrate her support for her subjects and her commercial interests in the Pacific region as a whole.

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