LABILLARDIERE (Jacques Julien Houton de). Voyage in search o - Lot 70

LABILLARDIERE (Jacques Julien Houton de). Voyage in search of La Perouse, performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1973, and 1794. London, John Stockdale, 1800. 2 vols. in-8, the second in 2 parts, 487 + 344-105 p., [2] f., , contemporary roasted havana calf, ornate ribbed spine, red titles and greefs, gilt roulette at the edges, expertly restored (browning). First English edition of this account of the voyage commissioned by d'Entrecasteaux in search of La Pérouse. Botanist Labillardière took part in the expedition, spending several months on the coast of Western Australia and visiting Tasmania. Illustrated with a folding map of the Indian Sea and part of the South Sea, and 45 plates (views, characters, natural history, etc.), engraved by Dien, Copia, Pérée, Maleuvre after Piron, Andebert, La Billardière, P.J. Redouté (for botany). Contains Malay vocabularies, the language of the inhabitants of Cape Diemen, the language of the Iles des Amis, the language of the New Caledonian naturals and the Waygiou, as well as the tables of the Route de l'Espérance at the end of the work. Provenance: Stuart B. Donald (etiquette bookplate 20th c.) (Sabin 38420 - O'Reilly, "Nouvelle-Calédonie", 64 - Ferguson 308).