DELESSERT, Eugène

Journeys in the two oceans - Atlantic and Pacific. 1844 à 1847. Brazil, United States, Cape of Good Hope, New Holland, New Zealand, Taiti, Philippines, China, Java, East Indies, Egypt. Paris, A. Franck, 1848. Large in-8 (269 x 186 mm) of 4 ff.n.ch., 326 pp. 1 f.n.ch. of table, 16 plates including the frontispiece, 1 large map and a folded plan. Green half-chagrin, double gilt fillet, spine gilt, edges gilt (publisher's binding). Sabin 19429; Ferguson 4751; Borba de Moraes, I, 253; O'Reilly, 1073. First edition, much of which is devoted to Australia. Richly illustrated plates show figures, views, exotic flora and fauna, and tools. The world map is titled Planisphère des voyages d'Eugène Delessert, the large map gives details of La Baie de Papaete, Taïti island. Nice copy, small tears (without missing) to the world map.