Relation Du Voyage à La Recherche De La Pérouse, Fait Par Ordre De L'Assemblée Constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ère et la 2de année de la République Françoise [with]

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Author: Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière (1755-1834) Year: 1800 Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale and Chez H.J. Jansen Place: London and Paris Description: 3 volumes. Comprises: Voyage in Search of La Pérouse. 2 volumes. xxxii+33-487 pages with ; [3]-344+105+[6 ad] pages with 45 engraved plates, folding map. Octavio (8¼ x 5¼"), rebound in modern gilt-ruled full calf, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers in non-pareil pattern. First English Octavo Edition. With Atlas Pour Servir à la Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse, Fait par Ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, Pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et 2eme annee de la République Française . 43 engraved maps and plates, including the large folding chart. Folio (22¼ x 15¾"), bound in quarter pebble cloth over marbled boards. After a good education at the college in his hometown, La Billardière studied medicine in Montpellier, where he attended botany courses at Goüan and Reims and obtained his doctorate in medicine in Paris in 1780. He turned to natural history and, "From this time on, his life was nothing more than an almost uninterrupted series of travels or research into botany. In 1791, the Constituent Assembly decreed that an expedition would be made to search for La Pérouse's expedition to Oceania . Placed under the orders of Bruny d'Entrecasteaux and Huon de Kermadec , this mission, charged with attempting to find the ships La Boussole and L'Astrolabe , was

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