Voyages.- Arago (Jacques Etienne Victor) Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne Corvettes, commanded by Captain Freycinet, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, half-title, folding lithographed map (trimmed with slight loss at right-hand edge), 25 fine lithographed plates after Arago, 2 folding at foot with short tears to edges, plates foxed and offset, title browned, light water-staining towards end affecting 2 plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, [Ferguson 885; Hill 298; Sabin 1865], 4to, 1823.


⁂ France's first post-Napoleonic circumnavigation, by the official artist on the expedition, with more realistic plates than anything previously published and including descriptions of Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Australia & New Zealand, South America and the Falkland Islands.