Ep.3.02 - Ep.3.03
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.
A Paris, : de l'Imprimerie royale., M.DCCXC. [1790]
2 v. ([4], vii, [1], 280 ; [4], 380, vi, [2] p.), [3] leaves of folded plates : ill., maps, music ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Imprint slip on verso of v.1 half-title: 'A Paris, chez Moutard, imprimeur-librarie, rue des Mathurins, Hôtel de Cluni.'
Two engraved folding maps, one with route added by hand in red.
Folded engraved plate of a dog sledge with volcano in the background by Pierre-Philippe Chofard after Nicolas Ozanne.
Bernard Quaritch Ltd, cat. 1436, no. 56
Ferguson, 87
Hill, 1010
Kroepelien, 723
NMM, I, 138
Sabin, 40208
Black paper labels on front pastedowns with gilt monogram 'M.H.' beneath a baron's coronet.
Gilt paper bookseller's label of E. Nourry, Paris, inside front cover of v. 1.
Engraved bookplate of the traveller, ornithologist, writer and bibliophile, colonel Philippe Milon, with tall ship and tropicbird.
Blue bookplate of P. R. Sandwell, collector of works on the Pacific.
Purchased by ECL in 2017.
Contemporary late 18th-century pink patterned paper boards ; roan spines with gilt fillets and lettering.
The folded plate is present in two states, one on ordinary paper, the other on India paper.
Russia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Siberia (Russia) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia) Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Bernard Quaritch bookseller.
Imprimerie royale printer.
Moutard, Nicolas-Léger, b. 1742? - ? bookseller.
France Paris.
B46323