Sold for:
$5,100
$5,100
La Perouse, Jean Francois Galaup de (1741-1788) and Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere (1755-1834) Atlas pour Servir a la Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse . Paris: Jansen & Dien, [1800]. Folio, atlas volume only, engraved title, illustrated with large folding map and forty-four full-page plates, of which fourteen depict botanical subjects after Redoute; three birds after Audebert, and twenty-six portraits and views of native peoples of New Zealand, Papua, New Guinea; Tonga; New Caledonia; and the Moluccas, after the drawings of Piron; slight spotting, some pages thumbed; bound in contemporary half calf and marbled, joints cracked.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
