Author: Jules Sebastian Cesar Dumont d'Urville / Goupil, E. / Sabatier / Lemercier
Publisher: Gide et Cie., Paris.
Year: 1846
Size: 37.3 x 24.3 cm view, 53 x 36 cm page
Reference: Griffin Lib. of Congress p. 115; Hill I, p.89; Sabin 21216
Site aux environs de Samboangan (Ile Mindanao)
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Description
hand-coloured sepia lithograph.
EXTREMELY RARE view from ‘Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans L’Océanie …l’Astrolabe…Zélée…: Atlas Pittoresque’, pl. 146; published by Gide et Cie., Paris between 1841 and 1855. 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.
Condition
with blind stamp in the lower margin.
