Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) (editor)
Oudart (after)
Borromèe (illustrator)
A. Dumenil (engraver)
Gide, Paris ("Editeur")
Trichoglosse Versicolor (Vig.) Male; Lori Cardinal (Nob.) Male;
Coryphile de Goupil (Nob.)
from Voyage au Pole Sud et Dans L'Oceanie sur Les Corvettes L'Astrolabe
et La Zélée...Pendant Les Années 1837, 1838, 1839,
1840 [Voyage to the South Pole and through Oceania on the Corvettes
Astrolabe and Zélée...During the Years 1837, 1838, 1839,
1840]
Hand-colored aquatint
Bougeard, Paris: 1841-1854 (atlas volume)
21 x 13.5 inches, overall
16.25 x 11 inches, plate mark
$800
Parrots
D'Urville Natural History Studies
D'Urville Natural History Studies
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Natural history study of three species of parrots shown perched on a branch.
Voyage au Pole Sud... reported on the geography, geology, anthropology and natural history of Oceania and the South Pacific, which d'Urville had explored. He enlisted scientific collaborators to write and illustrate each section. The zoology section contained about 110 plates, including 29 of mammals.
Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville was a French navigator who surveyed and explored the Falklands, Oceania and the South Pacific on two voyages between 1822 and 1829. During his second circumnavigation of the world between 1837 and 1840, on the Astrolabe and the Zélée, he penetrated the ice pack south of New Zealand and discovered the Adélie Coast region of Antarctica, which he named for his wife. Earlier in his career, D'Urville encountered the newly-discovered Venus de Milo while surveying the Mediterranean, and brought it to the attention of the Louvre, where it remains a featured part of the collection. He published several books with scientific collaborators about his voyages, including this one.
Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall toning and wear. Minor spotting lower margin.
References:
"Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville." The 1911 Edition Encyclopedia.
LoveToKnow Corp.: 2002. http://77.1911encyclopedia.org/D/DU/
DUMONT_D_URVILLE_JULES_SEBASTIEN_CESAR.htm (13 October 2003)
Voisin, Jean-François and Mougin, Jean-Louis, "Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 11: Manchots (Spheniscidae)." Zoosystema. Vol. 24. No. 1. Paris : Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 2002. pp. 186-190. http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z02n1a6.pdf (14 October 2003).