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C1833
Carte de L’Ile de la Trinite / Carte des iles Salvages / Carte du en Partie des Iles May et San-Yago
A finely engraved, large scale chart of Trinidad Island, Salvages Islands, May and San-Yago Islands showing forces of wind directions, and tracks of l’Astrolabe in 1826. from Dumont D’Urville’s voyage 1826-1829, which was one of the greatest French voyages ever … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Carte de L’Ile de la Trinite / Carte des iles Salvages / Carte du en Partie des Iles May et San-Yago
Date:
C1833
Condition:
In good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
870mm
x 593mm
Paper Size:
945mm
x 645mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1833
Description:
A finely engraved, large scale chart of Trinidad Island, Salvages Islands, May and San-Yago Islands showing forces of wind directions, and tracks of l’Astrolabe in 1826. from Dumont D’Urville’s voyage 1826-1829, which was one of the greatest French voyages ever published.
Present day: Trindade Island (Brazil), Selvagens Islands (Madeira Islands), São Tiago Island (Cape Verde), Maio Island (Cape Verde)
This important voyage was one in a great series undertaken by the French government in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for scientific and political purposes. Led by Jules Dumont d’Urville, its intention “was to gain additional information about the principal groups of islands in the Pacific and to augment the mass of scientific data acquired by Louis Duperrey. The Astrolabe sailed south, around the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Port Jackson. Proceeding to New Zealand, its coast, especially the southern part of Cook Strait, was surveyed with great care. Tonga and parts of the Fiji Archipelago were explored, then New Britain, New Guinea, Amboina, Tasmania, Vanikoro, Guam and Java. The return home was by way of Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope. Huge amounts of scientific materials were collected and published” (Hill 504).
References:
Ferguson, J. A. Bibliography of Australia Volumes 1-8, Canberra 1976 : 1341.
Phillips, P. A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Washington 1973 : 201.
Brosse, J. Great Voyages of Exploration. The Golden Age of Discovery in the Pacific. Sydney 1983 : pp. 152-154..
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 760392
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand: Registration Number; RB001201, RB000276
State Library New South Wales: Call Number: RB/ RF990A/ 41
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: ark:/12148/bpt6k53565814
Yale University Library & Art Gallery: Folio A 2014 27
New York Public Library: b13624459
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: ark:/12148/bpt6k53565814
State Library Victoria: RARELT 508.3 D89V
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842)
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was a French explorer and naval officer. Dumont d’Urville sailed from Toulon on 22 April 1826, towards the Pacific Ocean in his first voyage in the Astrolabe, for a circumnavigation of the world that was to lasted nearly three years. The expedition returned to Marseille on 25 March 1829. The Astrolabe was originally named Coquille and used for Louis Isidore Duperrey's circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825). She was renamed after the navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. In his second voyage in the Astrolabe and the Zélée he sailed from Toulon on 7 September 1837 with the aim to reach the most southerly point possible at this time in the Weddell Sea; to pass through the Strait of Magellan; to travel up the coast of Chile in order to head for Oceania with the objective of inspecting the new British colonies in Western Australia; to sail to Hobart; and to sail to New Zealand to find opportunities for French whalers and to examine places where a penal colony might be established. After passing through the East Indies, the mission would have to round the Cape of Good Hope and returning on 6 November 1840.
