Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Milet de Mureau, L. A. (Louis-Antoine), 1756-1825; Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820; Pingré, Alexandre Guy, 1711-1796
Publisher: 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
Published: 1799
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Subjects: Eskimo languages; Discoveries in geography; Indian linguistics; French; Wakashan languages; Glossaries, vocabularies; Boussole (Frigate); Voyages around the world; Astrolabe (Frigate); Description and travel
Other titles: Atlas du voyage de La Pérouse.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. all preliminary instructions, memoirs, etc. relating to the voyage. First part of the journal of La Pérouse; title: v. 2. Second part of the journal of La Pérouse. Tables of the routes of the Boussole and the Astrolabe. Supplementary memoirs, letters, etc.