Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The voyage of La Pérouse round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, with the nautical tables
Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde. English
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- arranged by M.L.A. Milet Mureau ; to which is prefixed, Narrative of an interesting voyage from Manilla to St. Blaise ; and annexed, Travels over the continent, with the dispatches of La Pérouse in 1787 and 1788, by M. de Lesseps ; translated from the French
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
-
- Milet-Mureau, L. A. (Louis Antoine), 1756-1825, compiler
- Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820. Narrative of an interesting voyage from Manilla to Saint Blaise
- Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de, 1766-1834. Journal historique du voyage de M. de Lesseps
- Pingré, Alexandre Guy, 1711-1796, translator
- Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834, artist
- Thomson, Paton, approximately 1750- engraver
- Sansom, Francis, active 1784-1799, engraver
- Springsguth, Samuel, engraver
- Murray, George, -1822, engraver
- Dadley, J., engraver
- Mazell, Peter, active 1761-1797, engraver
- Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827, engraver
- Greig, John, active 1803-1853, engraver
- Neele, Samuel John, 1758-1824, engraver
- Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, publisher
- Grover travel and exploration collection
- Publication
-
- London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1798
- Physical Details
-
- 2 volumes, 51 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 3 folded maps, 1 plan, 1 portrait, music ; 22 cm
- OCLC
- ocn152400697
- Translation of: Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde.
- 'Narrative of an interesting voyage from Manilla to St. Blaise' was written by F.A. Maurelle and translated by A. G. Pingré.
- Vol. 1: [20], cxc, 290 p., [27] leaves of plates (some folded) ; vol. 2: viii, 442, 64, 119, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates.
- Vol. 2, p. [353-361] misnumbered as 253-261.
- Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ A*² a-e⁸ e*⁸ f-l⁸ m² B-T⁸ U² [d1 and d3 signed 'e' and 'e3'] ; v. 2: A⁴ B-Z⁸ Aa-Ee⁸ Ff⁴(+1 leaf) a-h⁴ (A)-(G)⁸ (H)⁴.
- Engraved plates signed by P. Thomson; F. Sansom; S. Springsguth; G. Murray; J. Dadley; P. Mazell; Holloway; J. Grieg; and Neele.
- Frontispiece of v. 2 by Stothard.
- Includes publisher's advertisements ([1] p. at end of v. 2).
- Includes errata (vol. 2, p. 64 (second sequence) and 119 (third sequence)).
- Printed on wove paper.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- NUC pre-56, v. 316, p. 18.
- ESTC, T116417.
- Volume 1 Decree of the National Assembley, of February 9th, 1791 ; Decree of the National Assembly, of April 22d, 1791 ; Memorial from the King, to serve as particular instructions to the Sieur de la Pérouse, Captain in the Navy, commanding the Frigates la Boussole and l'Astrolabe, 26th June, 1785 ; Narrative of an interesting voyage from Manilla to Saint Blaise, in 1780 and 1781 -- Volume 2 Tables shewing the course of La Boussole, during the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, from the time of her departure from Europe, till her arrival at Botany Bay ; Substance of the travels over the continent, with the dispatches of La Pérouse, in the years 1787 and 1788 / by M. de Lesseps