Carte du Grand Ocean ou Mer du Sud. Dressee pour la Relation du Voyage de Decouvertes faites par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe dans les annees 1785, 86, 87, et 88. P.F. Tardieu sculp. Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse no. 3. (Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797)

• Main Authors: La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788, Tardieu, P. F.
• Other Authors: Rumsey Collection
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1797
• Subjects: Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
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Engraved map. Emphasizes coastal detail; 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. Phillips. Maps of America, p. 648; Wagner, H.R. Cartog. of the NW coast, 838; Tooley, R.V. The mapping of Australia and Antarctica, p. 111, no. 834; Falk, M.W. Alaskan maps, 1797-6.