Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde
By: publié conformément au décret du 22 avril 1797, et rédige par M.L.A. Milet-Mureau ...
Contributors: Milet-Mureau, L. A. 1756-1825, ed.; Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820.; Pingré, A. G. 1711-1796, tr.
Publisher: Imprimerie de la République
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800; Discoveries in geography -- Early works to 1800; Pacific Area -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Atlas has engr. half-title.
<Vol. 1 includes all preliminary instructions, memoirs, etc. relative to the expedition.>
"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: t. 1, p. 256-323.
"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": t. 1, p. 324-342.
<Vol. 2-3: Journal of Lapérouse and tables of the routes of the Boussole and the Astrolabe; v. 4: Supplementary memoirs, letters, etc.>