Voyage pittoresque autour du monde
Subtitle: 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
By: 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.
Contributors: Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832.; Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781-1838.; Gall, F. J. 1758-1828.; Eyriès, J. B. B. 1767-1846.
Publisher: Impr. de Firmin Didot
Published: 1822
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846.; Ri͡u︡rik (Brig); Views.; Voyages around the world.; Natural history.; Craniology.
Notes: Contains music.
Text by J.B.B. Eyries.
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 and Graesse. The Catal. général ... du Départament de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; 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.