Description: Voyage in Search of La Pérouse. Jacques-Julien de Labillardiere. Translated from the French. London: John Stockdale 1800. Vol. 1: 487pp. Vol. 2: frontis, title, [5]-344, 105, 3 leaves ads. Two volume set, octavo. First edition in English (also published as a single-volume quarto). An account of the expedition under d'Entrecasteaux which failed to find the vanished Perouse expedition, but returned a wealth of information about Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Tonga, and elsewhere in the region. With 44 plates, lacking the folding map and the Vol. 1 frontispiece. Modern half-leather bindings, new endpapers, a little rubbing to extremities. Owner bookplate inside front covers. Pages have some yellowing, scattered foxing, some creases and smudges, offsetting from plates, small tears. Five plates in Vol. 1 are affected by a patch of faint top-corner dampstain (as in last picture). One letter obliterated by a small surface tear. (Later) front endpaper has a tear with tape repair. The list of plates has check-marks.
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