DU PETIT-THOUARS, Aubert - Lot 48

DU PETIT-THOUARS, Aubert Voyage around the world on the frigate La Venus. Relation. Paris, Gide, 1840-1843. 4 volumes in 2 in-8 (233 x 147 mm) of a portrait in frontispiece, 2 ff.n.ch., XLIV, 402 pp., 4 tables out of text (of which 3 folding), 1 engraved and colored plate for the volume I; engraved portrait in frontispiece, 2 ff.n.ch., 464 pp, 1 engraved and colored plate for volume II; 1 engraved plate in frontispiece, 2 ff.n.ch., 488 pp., 5 tables (of which 3 folding), 1 engraved and colored plate for volume III; engraved and colored plate in frontispiece, 2 ff.n.ch., 178 pp., 1 folding table, 1 large engraved folding map for volume IV Blue percale decorated with oeser and gilt, smooth spine, spotted edges (publisher's binding). Nissen, ZBI, 1211; Graesse, II, 447; Borba de Moraes, 276-277; Sabin, 21354; Hill, 518. First edition of the text of the Relation part. The 4 engraved plates (3 of them natural history) illustrating this copy are not part of the edition. They show a golden pheasant, a tiger and a leopard, the barbaric treatment of Cassy and Archibald, and monkeys. A good copy of the text alone.