Carte des decouvertes, faites en 1787 dans les mers de Chine et de Tartarie, par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe, depuis leur depart de Manille jusqu'a leur arrivee au Kamtschatka. 1ere. feuille. Gravee par Bouclet. Ecrit par Herault. Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse no. 43. (Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797)

• Main Authors: La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788, Bouclet, Herault
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: L'Imprimerie de la Republique 1797
• Subjects: Kamtschatka
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Engraved map. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Shows route of La Perouse. Prime meridian: Paris. La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived and were published in 1797. This copy consists of the Atlas only to the First French edition. It is an exceptional copy, with very strong impressions. It should be compared to the smaller English Atlas of 1799. Maps are without color and bound in half leather brown marbled paper covered boards with "La Perouse's Voyages. Atlas" stamped in gilt on the spine. Issued to accompany: Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde . an V (1797) Phillips, 688; Howes. U.S.iana, 93; Mickwitz. A.E. Nordenskiold Collection . annotated catalogue of maps made up to 1800, v.2 no. 133.