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DUMONT D'URVILLE (Jules). - Lot 93
DUMONT D'URVILLE (Jules).
Journey to the South Pole and Oceania on the corvettes the Astrolabe and the Zealot, executed by order of the king during the years 1837-1838-1839-1840. P., Gide, 1841-1846, 11 vol. 8° (including the map volume), brown half-basane, smooth spine, author, title, tomaison and gilt fillets (faded and rubbed spines, many freckles). First edition, illustrated with 9 folding maps. Third trip around the world of Jules Dumont d'Urville, completed two years before his tragic death in the first French railway disaster. Voyage of the corvettes L'Astrolabe and La Zélée commanded by Dumont d'Urville and Charles Hector Jacquinot to the coasts of Antarctica, Oceania, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Hamoa and Viti archipelagos, Vanikoro, the Solomon Islands, the Carolinas, New Guinea and Australia. Dumont d'Urville then headed towards the South Pole by exploring the southern seas and first reached the Antarctic lands in January 1840. He named the region he had just discovered "Terre Adélie" in homage to his wife Adèle.
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