Milet de Mureau (Louis Marie de), Voyage de La Pérouse, auto...

Milet de Mureau (Louis Marie de), Voyage de La Pérouse, autour du Monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 avril 1791, four volumes, [with] Atlas du Voyage La Pérouse, five volume set, first edition, Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, An V. (i.e. 1797), portrait frontispiece, the folio atlas with engraved allegorical title, 69 folding and full-page maps, charts and plates as called for, of which the World map, with New Holland/Australia almost complete, with water stained right; Fort-de-France repaired and remargined; four or so more illustrations remargined in places; one plate with horizontal crease across the image; otherwise a generally good atlas, occasional toned or off-set marks, but mostly clean, the 4to volumes uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf over boards, the covers with a paterae and anchor border, upper covers lettered: E.ᴰ, morocco lettering pieces, rubbed, chipped and split in places, volume IV upper-cover off, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, and the atlas uncut in later 20th c brown quarter-morocco over cloth, large folio (63 x 47cm), [Sabin 38960; Hill 972; Ferguson 251], (5) Provenance: ?4to volumes only 1) the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford; second-half 19th c Ragley Hall library bookplates to 4to volumes' pastedowns. Until sold by 2) Christie, Manson & Woods, Valuable Books, Being a Portion of the Library the Property of the Fifth Marquess of Hertford, Deceased [...] and removed from Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, 23rd May, 1938. One of the finest narratives of maritime exploration, covering Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, the Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Australia.

Estimate:£3,000

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