LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)
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LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)

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LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)
Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté... sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goelette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804... Partie Navigation et Géographie... Atlas. Paris: au Dépôt Général des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, 1812. Large 2° (560 x 460mm). Mounted on guards throughout. Engraved title, 1p. 'Table des Cartes et Plans', 32 engraved maps, 25 double-page. (Small tears and light soiling to outer blank margin of map numbered 32.) Original red stippled wrappers (backstrip lacking, scuffing and small tears to covers).

PROVENANCE: Mr. Freycinet (calligraphic presentation inscription on title 'À Mon Père Hommage d'Amitié et de Respect L[ou]is. Freycinet').

FREYCINET'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS FATHER OF HIS GREATEST GEOGRAPHICAL WORK, presumably given in 1812. Ferguson 536.
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