[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Vincendon-Dumoulin : autograph letter signed, to Casimir Gide, circa 1842

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Single sheet, octavo, manuscript in brown ink, written on one side only, undated but probably 1842, a note from the hydrographer Vincendon-Dumoulin to Dumont d Urville s publisher, Casimir Gide, suggesting an amendment to one of the maps in the fourth volume of Dumont d Urville s Voyage au Pôle Sud (Vincendon-Dumoulin was the editor of the work, published in 24 volumes between 1842 and 1854): Si la carte du 4ème volume (iles Viti) n et pas tirée, nous y ferons ajouter un nom d ile qui est désignée dans la narration. C est une omission de peu d importance et qui, dans tous les cas, ne fera pas grand bruit si on ne peut plus la réparer ; signed Dumoulin ; the note closes with Salut et amitié à MM. Gide et Beadry ; original folds; clean and legible. Vincendon-Dumoulin sailed with Dumont d Urville to the Antarctic and the Pacific on the second voyage of the Astrolabe (1837-40). He was responsible for drawing the first map of Adélie Land. After the expedition, he acted as the principal editor of Voyage au Pôle Sud .

• Binding: Hardcover

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