Shelfmark
Ep.3.02 - Ep.3.03
Author
Title
Journal historique du voyage de M. de Lesseps, consul de France, employé dans l'expédition de M. le comte de la Pérouse, en qualité d'interprète du roi; depuis l'instant où il a quitté les frégates françoises au port Saint-Pierre & Saint-Paul du Kamtschatka, jusqu'à son arrivée en France, le 17 octobre 1788.
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : de l'Imprimerie royale., M.DCCXC. [1790]
Physical description
2 v. ([4], vii, [1], 280 ; [4], 380, vi, [2] p.), [3] leaves of folded plates : ill., maps, music ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Note
Imprint slip on verso of v.1 half-title: 'A Paris, chez Moutard, imprimeur-librarie, rue des Mathurins, Hôtel de Cluni.'
Note
Two engraved folding maps, one with route added by hand in red.
Note
Folded engraved plate of a dog sledge with volcano in the background by Pierre-Philippe Chofard after Nicolas Ozanne.
Citation/references note
Bernard Quaritch Ltd, cat. 1436, no. 56
Citation/references note
Ferguson, 87
Citation/references note
Hill, 1010
Citation/references note
Kroepelien, 723
Citation/references note
NMM, I, 138
Citation/references note
Sabin, 40208
Provenance
Black paper labels on front pastedowns with gilt monogram 'M.H.' beneath a baron's coronet.
Provenance
Gilt paper bookseller's label of E. Nourry, Paris, inside front cover of v. 1.
Provenance
Engraved bookplate of the traveller, ornithologist, writer and bibliophile, colonel Philippe Milon, with tall ship and tropicbird.
Provenance
Blue bookplate of P. R. Sandwell, collector of works on the Pacific.
Provenance
Purchased by ECL in 2017.
Binding
Contemporary late 18th-century pink patterned paper boards ; roan spines with gilt fillets and lettering.
Copy-specific note
The folded plate is present in two states, one on ordinary paper, the other on India paper.
Subject
Subject
Russia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
Siberia (Russia) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Subject
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form
Travel literature.
Added entry--name
Bernard Quaritch bookseller.
Added entry--name
Imprimerie royale printer.
Added entry--name
Moutard, Nicolas-Léger, b. 1742? - ? bookseller.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B46323