FREYCINET
ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victoire Souvenirs d'un aveugle... Brussels, Societe Typographique, 1840
Large octavo, with a portrait frontispiece, lithographs and in-text illustrations; slight spotting and offsetting, but a good copy in original, slightly worn morocco.
The classic account of Louis de Freycinet's circumnavigation in the Uranie by the official artist on the voyage, Jacques Arago. The expedition spent considerable time in Hawaii as well as New South Wales and Western Australia. In this edition there are eight chapters devoted to Freycinet's visit to New Holland and additional scientific notes by François Arago.
The plates here are all after the drawings Arago made during the voyage. The eccentricity of both illustrations and narrative in Arago's account made it very popular and it was, unlike the extensive official version, within the budget of the normal reader. There were numerous editions of his narrative: this particular one is not recorded by Ferguson, (although a four-volume version of the same year is 2609).
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