ROCHON (Alexis). Voyage à Madagascar et aux Indes Orientales - Lot 195

ROCHON (Alexis). Voyage à Madagascar et aux Indes Orientales. Paris, Prault, 1791. In-8, LXIV-322 p., folding map, modern marbled paper boards, red title page (light rubbing, foxing). First edition including a brief description of Cochinchine (p. 289-313). Relation de voyage à Madagascar illustrated with a large folding map engraved by Bénard after a drawing made in 1727 by Robert. A priest, naval astronomer, physicist and inventor, Abbé Alexis-Marie de Rochon (1741-1817) was librarian of the Académie royale de marine in Brest (1765-), naval astronomer and optician (1787), member of the Commission des poids et mesures et des monnaies (1792), member of the Académie royale des sciences, then member of the Institut. (Gay, n°284; Grandidier, n°4285; Boucher de la Richarderie, IV, 276).