A voyage round the world, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788
By: by the Boussole and Astrolabe, under the command of J.F.G. de La Pérouse: published by order of the National Assembly, under the superintendence of L.A. Milet-Mureau, brigadier-general in the Corps of engineers, director of fortifications, member of the Constituent Assembly, and fellow of several literary societies at Paris. In two volumes. Illustrated by a variety of charts and plates, in a separate folio volume. Translated from the French
Contributors: Milet-Mureau, L. A. (Louis Antoine), 1756-1825; Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820
Publisher: Printed by A. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; and T. Payne, Mews-Gate, Castle-Street
Published: 1799
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
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: Charts and plates to La Pérouse's Voyage.
Work titles: Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde
Notes: Abridged translation of: Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, first printed Paris, 1797.

Original French edition edited by L.A. Milet de Mureau.

Engraved title page to Atlas reads: Charts and plates to La Pérouse's Voyage, and is dated Novr. 1st 1798.

"Narrative of an interesting voyage of the frigate la Princesa, from Manilla to San Blas, in 1780, 1781", translated from the Spanish of F.A. Mourelle, v. 1, p. 194-241.

"Extract from the account of a voyage made in 1779, by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle ... to explore the western coast of North America": v. 1, p. 242-255.

Includes selections of vocabulary in the Port des Français language, v. 1, p. 409-410, and in the Ecclemach language, v. 1, p. 468-469; 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. 80-85, which is identified as located near the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Pagination: v. 1: [8], lvi, 539, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: viii, 304, *297-*304, 305-312 *305-*312, 313-320, *313-*320, 321-531, [17] p.; Atlas: [4] p., [90] leaves of plates (21 double)

Signatures: v. 1: [a]⁴ b-h⁴ B-3Y⁴ 3Z²; v. 2: [A]⁴ B-2Q⁴ *2Q⁴ 2R⁴ *2R⁴ 2S⁴ *2S⁴ 2T-3Z⁴ 4A²; Atlas: pi²

Errata: v. 2: p. [16], 9th count.

Includes index.

Sabin 38962.

Phillips 693.

Pilling, J.C. North American Indians, 2202.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III:4037.

ESTC T197248.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary treed calf.