Relation du voyage a` la recherche de La Pérouse, : fait par ordre de l'Assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ère. et la 2de. année de la République françoise. / Par le cen. Labillardière...

Vocabulaires (appended to v. 2): Vocabulaire Malais -- Vocabulaire de la langue des sauvages du Cap de Diemen -- Vocabulaire de la langue des Îles des amis -- Vocabulaire du langage des naturels de la Nouvelle-Calédonie -- Vocabulaire du langage des naturels de Waygiou.

Tome 1: xvi, 442 p. ; t. 2: 332, 113, [1] p.

Voyage commanded by Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in the ships Recherche and Espérance.

With half titles.

Accompanied by atlas with separate engraved t.p.: Atlas pour servir à la relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse... À Paris : Chez H.J. Jensen..., An viii de la République.

Text on watermarked paper: 'Querenes & Raffy'; 'Au Marais'; 'Baudouin'.

Atlas plates signed: Dion, Piron, Perée, Audebert, P.J. Redoubté and others.

Includes references to New Zealand in vol. 2 and 1 plate in the atlas with portraits representing Māori.

Errata on final p. of v. 2.

Bagnall, 3044

Sabin, 38420

plate Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand

Copy 1. Binding: black textured roan, blind tooled; spine with raised bands, blind tooled; brown morocco spine labels lettered in black; red marbled end papers; red sprinkled text edges. Atlas binding: half black textured roan, blind tooled, purple textured buckram boards; spine with raised bands, blind tooled; blue marbled end papers; in red linen slip case. Provenance: armorial bookplate of John Bates Thurston with motto Esse quam videri. Acc. 17047-17048, 18191.

Copy 2. Binding: calf mottled in red and black, gold tooled, gold tooled edges; spine with raised bands, gold tooled in decorated compartments, green morocco spine labels; yellow end papers, green sprinkled text edges, green silk book mark. Spine title: Recherche de La Perouse. Atlas binding: half red imitation straight grained morocco, blind tooled and gold tooled, brown paper boards; spine with double raised bands; brown endpapers; untrimmed edges. Provenance: presented to the Alexander Turnbull Library by Sir John Henry Hosking, 15th June, 1927, presentation inscription on flyleaf and label on endpapers. Acc. 30374-30376.

Copy 3. Binding: 19th century quarter black imitation straight grained morocco, green marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, red sprinkled text edges. Spine title: Voyage à la recherche. Provenance: presentation bookplate to General Assembly Library from the Hon. Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell, M.L.C. January, 1867; bookplate and gold spine stamp of General Assembly Library. Lacks half titles and atlas. Acc. 343074-343075.

Digital image available: 'Fête donnée au Général Dentrecasteaux par Toubau, roi des Iles des Amis', copy 1, plate 26. Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.