Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde Resumé Général des Voyages de Découvertes de Magellan, Tasman, Bryon, Carteret, Cook, Wilson, Baudin, Kotzebue, Dumont d’Urville etc. [2 volumes]

Description

viii, 576pp, 584pp, contemporary marbled boards, half calf, with gilt titles, with 2 portraits frontispieces, many steel engravings + 6 folded maps; Philippines on pp 235-275 with complete set of prints.
2 volumes of the first edition, published by L. Tenré in Paris, also translated later into several languages, and re-published in several editions.
This is the famous narrative on the Philippines with its iconic Philippine engravings.
Dumont was a French explorer and naval officer. For thirty-eight months he explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Several seaweeds, plants, and shrubs are named after him, as well as D’Urville Island.