Author: Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville, / E. Goupil / Sabatier / Bayot
Publisher: Gide et Cie., Paris.
Year: 1846
Size: 26 x 40 cm view, 35.7 x 55.2 cm page
Reference: Griffin Lib. of Congress p. 115; Hill I, p.89; Sabin 21216
Environs de Samboangan (Ile Mindanao)
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hand-coloured sepia lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE view from ‘Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans L’Océanie …l’Astrolabe…Zélée…: Atlas Pittoresque’, pl. 145.
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.
