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[2 ] DUPERREY, L.I. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du
Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 822,
82 , 82 et 82 . ZOOLOGIE par Lesson et Garnot. Paris, A. Bertrand,
826- 8 0. text volumes (bound in 2). Large to (29 x 22 mm) and
folio atlas ( 92 x mm), with 7 (2 plain) beautifully colour-printed
engraved plates, finished by hand. Contemporary half calf, gilt lettered
spines (one text volume recently bound to match, the remaining volumes
a bit rubbed) . € .000
The complete zoological part of Duperrey's famous circumnavigation with the "Coquille".
Louis-Isidore Duperrey ( 786- 86 ) made his first voyage around the world with
L. de Freycinet in 8 7- 820. Already 2 years later he set sail on the "Coquille" with
J.S.C. Dumont d'Urville as second in command. On this long voyage, an impressive array
of geological, botanical and zoological specimens were collected, which were housed
in the "Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle" after their return in Marseille in 82 . On board
the well-known French pharmacist and ornithologist R. Lesson served as naturalist and
surgeon. The large collections and exhaustive zoological descriptions (especially regarding
the birds) were made by him, together with P. Garnot and F.E. Guérin-Méneville. Of
the beautiful 7 plates, depict birds (of which many were new to science), 8 fishes, 9
mammals, 7 reptiles, 6 molluscs, 6 zoophytes, crustaceans, and 22 insects. All are very
finely colour-printed (many finished by hand) after drawings by J.G. Prêtre, R.P. Lesson,
Bévalet, Prévost, and a few others.
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