Vue de Cavite dans la Baie de Manille [View of Cavite in the Bay of Manila]

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Author: Jean Francois Galaup de LaPerouse / Duche de Vancy/ J.M. le Jeune Moreau / Simonet / L. Aubert

Publisher: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, Paris.

Year: 1789

Size: 25 x 39.5 cm [image]; 30.2 x 40.4 cm [sheet]

Reference: Quirino, pp. 60, 105; Sabin 38961; Hill p. 173; Wagner (NW) 837-848

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving. View from the RARE large paper size edition of the ‘Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse’.

The author, Jean François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788) was a French Naval officer and explorer. He set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived as they were sent to France from Australia, and were published in 1797.

Condition

cleaned, very good condition.

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