COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811
Author:
La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Date:
1797
Short Title:
Archipel des Navigateurs.
Publisher:
L'Imprimerie de la Republique
Publisher Location:
Paris
Type:
Atlas Map
Type:
Chart Map
Obj Height cm:
50
Obj Width cm:
68
Scale 1:
670,000
Note:
Engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Inset map: Extrait des Cartes du voyage de M. de Bougainville autour du monde en 1768. Includes 11 coastal views of Pola, Ololava, Maouna and Opoun, and table of islands with coordinates. Shows La Perouse's route.
Country:
Western Samoa
Region:
American Samoa
Region:
Samoan Islands
Full Title:
Carte de l'Archipel des Navigateurs, decouvert par M. de Bougainville en Mai 1768, et reconnu par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe en Decembre 1787. Ecrit par Herault. Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse no. 64. (Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797)
List No:
3355.064
Page No:
No. 64
Series No:
66
Engraver or Printer:
Herault
Publication Author:
La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Pub Date:
1797
Pub Title:
Atlas du voyage de La Perouse. (title page only) Dessine par J. M. Moreau le Jeune. Grave par Ph. Triere. L. Aubert scripsit.
Pub Reference:
Phillips, 688; Howes. U.S.iana, 93; Mickwitz. A.E. Nordenskiold Collection ... annotated catalogue of maps made up to 1800, v.2 no. 133.
Pub Note:
La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived and were published in 1797. This copy consists of the Atlas only to the First French edition. It is an exceptional copy, with very strong impressions. It should be compared to the smaller English Atlas of 1799. Maps are without color and bound in half leather brown marbled paper covered boards with "La Perouse's Voyages. Atlas" stamped in gilt on the spine. Issued to accompany: Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde ... an V (1797)
Pub List No:
3355.000
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
34
Pub Height cm:
56
Pub Width cm:
41
Image No:
3355064
Authors:
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811; La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
