ARAGO, Jacques. - Lot 9

ARAGO, Jacques. [Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet. (Paris, Leblanc, 1822). Small folio (33 x 24 cm), 23 plates (of 26). Bound, cover with title pasted to 1st ff. (very slight foxing). Atlas of this important circumnavigation work illustrated in the early days of lithography, here in its first edition and complete with its world map. The expedition was led by Commandant Freycinet between 1817 and 1820, with Arago as illustrator. Comprising 22 black lithographed plates by Langlumé, some of which are double plates, and the planisphere tracing the route of the voyage, drawn by Desmadryl Frères and Joumar. Evokes Australia, Guam, Hawaii, the Mariana Islands, Brazil, anthropophagy, the Carolinas, tiger hunting and the Sandwich Islands...