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Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde: publié conformément au décrit du 22 avril, 1791, et rédigé par M.L.A. Millet-Mureau, général de brigade dans le corps de génie, directeur des fortifications, ex-constituant, membres de plusieurs sociétés littéraires de Paris
1799, de l'imprimerie d'A. Hamilton: se vend chez G.G. et J. Robinson, Paternoster Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; et T. Payne, Mews-Gate, Castle Street
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"Relation d'un voyage intéressant de la frégate la Princesse, de Manille à Saint-Blaise, en 1780 et 1781," translated from the Spanish of F. A. Maurelle by A.G. Pingré: v. 1, p. 201-248.
"Extrait de la relation d'un voyage fait en 1779, par Don François-Antoine Maurelle ... pour la découverte des côtes occidentales de l'Amérique Septentrionale": v. 1, p. 249-262.
Atlas has engraved, illustrated title page: Atlas du voyage de La Pérouse with imprint: [London] Novr. 1st, 1798, by G.G. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster Row.
Pagination: v. 1: xlviii, [1], iii, 539, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: viii, 296, 289-296, 297-304, 297-304, 305-522, [18] p.
Signatures: v. 1: [a] b-f g² B-3Y 3Z² (3Z2 verso blank); v. 2: [A] B-2P 2P 2Q 2Q 2R-3Y 3Z²
Includes index.
Includes selections of vocabulary in the Port des Français language, v. 1, p. 412-413, and in the Ecclemach language, v. 1, p. 470-471; these languages would appear to be part of the Wakashan group of languages spoken on the Pacific Northwest coast. There is a selection of vocabulary in the language of the inhabitants of Tchoka island, v. 2, p. 79-84, which is identified as located near the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Sabin 38961.
Pilling, J.C. North American Indians, 2201.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:4036.
ESTC N45900.
NUC Pre-1956 reports atlas both with and without an engraved frontispiece of the author. John Carter Brown Library copy does not have engraved frontispiece facing t.p.
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