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ARAGO (Jacques). Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du mo - Lot 1
ARAGO (Jacques). Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde Paris, Horyey et Ozanne, 1839. 4 vol. in-8, contemporary burgundy half-basane, smooth spine, author, title, tomaison, triple gilt fillet and fleurons, speckled edges (spines evenly browned, corners rubbed, small worm spot at tail of one spine, brown spots, plates of t.2 and some of t.3 browned).
Relation of the voyage aboard the corvette l'Uranie, commanded by Louis de Freycinet, between 1817 and 1820, which took the navigators, including Arago as draftsman, from the Canaries to Brazil, then from New Holland to New Guinea and the Sandwich Islands.
The illustrations include a portrait of the author on the frontispiece of volumes 1 and 3, and 60 plates lithographed by Villain after Arago's sketches, some drawn by Nicolas-Eustache Maurin, in each volume, for a total of 62 hors-texts.
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