LAPLACE (Cyrille). Circumnavigation campaign of the frigate - Lot 205

LAPLACE (Cyrille). Circumnavigation campaign of the frigate l'Artémise during the years 1837-1840. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1841-54. 6 volumes large in-8, printed green boards (publisher's binding). Some foxing and browning. Rare first edition of Laplace's account of his second expedition. It is decorated with 2 engraved and colored folding maps (world map and map of British India) and 31 engraved plates out of text (views of Gorée, Calcutta, Muscat, Moka, Malacca, Manila, Macao, Honolulu, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, etc.). Commercial and diplomatic expedition. Laplace set sail from Toulon on January 20, 1837, first to New York. He then headed south, passing through the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea (Moka), before visiting Muscat, Pondicherry, Ceylon, Singapore, Batavia, Cochinchina, the Chinese coast, Australia, Tasmania, the Pacific Ocean to Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Peru and Brazil. Returned to Lorient on April 15, 1840. A complete copy of the sixth volume, devoted to California, which is sometimes missing. Some foxing and browned quires. Taillemite, 594 - O'Reilly, 984 - Sabin, nº38983.