Voyage autour du Monde entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement sur la corvette La Coquille; 4 vols.

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Bruxelles: N.-J. Gregoir V. Wouters et Cie 1839. 8vo. Orig. French quarter oasis with marbled boards and tipped corners. Spines uniformly gilt lettered. A particularly fine set of the Brussels edition complete with 4 frontispieces (including one depicting the native inhabitants of Port Jackson) and a title-vignette to each volume. Ferguson 2788. NOTE: The "Coquille" under the command of Captain Duperrey visited Sydney in 1824 remaining there from 17th January to 20th March. King Bungaree a very quaint figure who spoke a little English waited upon the Frenchman with his retainers. The aborigines are fully described and the excursions and observations of the visitors recorded. The official history of the voyage was not published and the only contributions to it are in these volumes and in the "Observations personelles" of M. D'Urville then an officer of the vessel. M. Lesson was naturalist of the "Coquille". Vocabularies of some of the places visited including New South Wales and New Zealand are given.