8vos. ccxl, 613 pp. (running pag.) Publisher’s full cloth with dust jacket. A few illustrations. Faint basement smell, otherwise very nice.
Kommentar: Second Series No. 179-180. La Pérouse sailed with two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, in August 1785, making for Tenerife, Brazil and Chile. He went on to Easter Island, the Hawaiian group and the Northwest Coast of America, endeavouring to complete the work of James Cook. They then went on to China, the Philippines and Formosa, Korea, Sakhalin and Kamchatka. Having received new instructions, La Pérouse sailed south towards the Samoan group and to Botany Bay in New South Wales where he arrived on 26 January 1788. He left on 10 March, at this point the expedition vanished.
