Vue d'Amboine, Prise des hauteurs de Batou-Ganton. (Moluques.)
de Sainson pinx.t. Nousveau Lith.
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Bichebois aîné, rue déry, 23. [Paris, n.d. c.1833.]
Lithograph. 342 x 508mm. 13¼ x 20". Paper toning around the edges. Some spotting.
A French explorer in the foreground with a servant holding a parasol to shade his master from the sun; in the background the Island of Ambon, Indonesia, with ships and smaller vessels in the bay. Numbered 'Pl.146' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title. After Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887).
See NLA: 2713024. Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18852] £220.00
J. Tastu Editeur. Lith. de Bichebois aîné, rue déry, 23. [Paris, n.d. c.1833.]
Lithograph. 342 x 508mm. 13¼ x 20". Paper toning around the edges. Some spotting.
A French explorer in the foreground with a servant holding a parasol to shade his master from the sun; in the background the Island of Ambon, Indonesia, with ships and smaller vessels in the bay. Numbered 'Pl.146' upper right; from 'Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe', the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829. Publisher's blindstamp below title. After Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801 - 1887).
See NLA: 2713024. Ex Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18852] £220.00