Voyage pittoresque autour du monde : avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan : des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusieurs objets d'histoire naturelle : accompagné de descriptions par m. le baron Cuvier, et m. A. de Chamisso, et d'observations sur les crânes humains, par m. le docteur Gall / par m. Louis Choris, peintre

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[4], VI, [154] p., [105] leaves of plates (1 folded) : col. ill., 3 maps, port. ; 46 cm. (fol.)

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Wa copy: Period half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers.

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WA copy, as bound: Portrait of Mr. le Comte N. Romanzoff (b&w) -- Title page ([1] leaf, verso blank) -- Dedication ([2] p.) -- Introduction (vi p.) Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili (XII plates, 17 p.) -- Kamtchatka (X plates, [3]-20 p.) -- Port San-Francisco (XIV plates, 10, 3 p.) -- Iles Sandwich (XIX plates, 24 p.) -- Iles Radak (XIX plates, 22 p.) -- Iles Aléoutiennes (XXIII plates, 28 p.) -- Iles Mariannes (VII plates, 20, 6 p.) -- List of subscribers ([1] leaf, verso blank) -- Avis au relieur and Errata ([2] p.) -- Notice sur les Iles de corail du grand ocean, etc (6 p.) -- Carte des Iles Radack et Ralik ; Plan du groupe des Iles Rumanzoff (2 maps on 1 leaf) -- Carte du Grand Ocean (1 folded sheet).

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Contains music.
Text by J.B.B. Eyriès.
Issued in 22 livraisons, 1821-23. The 21st livraison ("21e et dernière livr.") 1822 was followed by a "22e et dernière livraison," 1823; the latter (2 maps with text) is wanting in some copies. The work is divided into 7 parts, paged separately and published in the following order: I. San Francisco et ses habitants. II. Îles Sandwich. III. Îles Radak. IV. Îles Aléoutiennes. V. Îles Mariannes et Philippines. VI. Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili. VII. Kamtchatka, le golfe de Kotzebue et la terre des Tchouktchis.
In the present issue all the plates except the front. and 1 port. are colored; there is another issue in which the plates are black, and a third in which only the plates illustrating natural history are colored. The number of plates is given as 110 by Quérard, La France littéraire, Brunet, Grässe, and Sabin. The Catal. général ... du Département de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; Howes, 104 plates; the Bibliographie de la France, 105 plates and two maps, the Catalogue of the Brit. Mus. (Natural history) 105 plates and three maps.
Expedition commanded by Otto von Kotzebue, 1815-1818.

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WA copy: Purchased in part with funds from the Friends of the Princeton University Library Acquisition Fund, 2017.