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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.
[Ref: 40543]   £140.00   (£168.00 incl.VAT)
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