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Costumes des habitans de la Conception.
Costumes des habitans de la Conception.
Dessiné par Duché-de-Vancy. Réduit par J.M. Moreau le jeune. Gravé par Thomas. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 330 x 480mm (13 x 18¾"). Trimmed, faint creasing.
The dress of the European inhabitants of Conception in Chile.
In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked in Kamchatka and spent a year crossing Siberia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.

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Tombeaux de la Baie de Castries.
Tombeaux de la Baie de Castries.
Dessiné par Duché-de-Vancy. Gravé par Masquelier. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22".
Tombs near Castries Bay in Tartary, named after the French minister of marine who had sent La Perouse on his mission. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked in Kamchatka and spent a year crossing Siberia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
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Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Dessiné par Duché-de-Vancy. Gravé par Dennel. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22".
The interior of a hut of Castries Bay in Tartary, named after the French minister of marine who had sent La Perouse on his mission. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked in Kamchatka and spent a year crossing Siberia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
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Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Langle.
Costumes des habitans de la Baie de Langle.
Dessine par Duche-de Vancy. Gravé par Cathelin. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797.]
Engraving. 390 x 560mm, 15½ x 22".
La Perouse's officers among the inhabitants of 'Langle Bay', which was named after La Perouse's second-in-command, Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, who was killed on Samoa, December 1787. The site is probably Tomari Bay, Sakhalin. In 1785 Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was sent by the French to continue Cook's exploration work in the Pacific, in the ships 'Astrolabe' & 'Boussole'. After three years, during which time he visited Chile, California, Alaska, Kamchatka, the Philippines, Japan and Hawaii, he travelled to Australia. Outside Botany Bay he met up with Captain Arthur Phillip's First Fleet, after which he set sail and was never seen again, despite an extensive rescue mission. Fortunately La Pérouse took every oportunity to send his work back to France: one crew member disembarked here at Petropavlovsk and spent a year crossing Russia back to France; later journals, charts and letters he left with the British at Botany Bay. Thus his discoveries were not lost with him, but published posthumously in this work, 'Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde..'.
Ex Collection Norman Blackburn.
[Ref: 18691]   £520.00  
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Niskani, Aoucantouri et Erougantoi, habitans de la Baie de Langle. Orotchis, habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Niskani, Aoucantouri et Erougantoi, habitans de la Baie de Langle. Orotchis, habitans de la Baie de Castries.
Dessiné par Duche de Vancy. Gravé par Simonet. L. Aubert scripsit.
[Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797.]
Engraving. 565 x 410mm (22¼ x 16"). Tear in edge, well outside image area. Small margins.
Two round group portraits: above are inhabitants of the Tomari Bay, Sakhalin; below are the inhabitants of De Castries Bay, on the mainland coast of the Gulf of Tartary. They were drawn by Gaspard Duchè de Vancy (1756-1788), the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, who disappeared with the rest of the crews of the Astrolabe and Boussole in 1788.
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