DUMONT D'URVILLE (Jules Sébastien César) - Lot 528

DUMONT D'URVILLE (Jules Sébastien César) Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes L'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Published by order of His Majesty. Paris, Gide, 1841-46. 10 volumes in 5 volumes in-8; 9 folding maps (in fine of the parts, except for the last one). Occasional heavy foxing, some quires browned, rings of light wetness. ½ period fawn basane, title, tomaisons and gilt fillets on smooth spines, cold fillets, spines sunned and dry. Jules Dumont d'Urville's third round-the-world voyage, completed two years before his tragic death in France's first railway disaster. Voyage of the corvettes L'Astrolabe and La Zélée, commanded by Dumont d'Urville and Charles Hector Jacquinot, to the coasts of Antarctica, Oceania, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, the Tonga Islands, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Hamoa and Viti archipelagos, Vanikoro, the Solomon Islands, the Carolines, New Guinea and Australia. Dumont d'Urville then headed for the South Pole, exploring the southern seas, and was the first to reach the Antarctic in January 1840. He named the region he had just discovered "Terre Adélie", in honor of his wife Adèle. Complete with 9 large folding maps.