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Pair of rare separately issued French Hydrographic world charts showing magnetic fields published by Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine, Paris. The charts were also issued in a smaller format (approximate size 550 x 400mm) and with a … Read Full Description
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Pair of rare separately issued French Hydrographic world charts showing magnetic fields published by Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine, Paris. The charts were also issued in a smaller format (approximate size 550 x 400mm) and with a centre fold by Louis-Isidore Duperrey in his monumental account of his voyage of exploration, Voyage autour du Monde, executé per ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette La Coquille de sa Majesté, pendant les annies 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Paris: Firmin Didot for Arthus Bertrand, 1826-1830. The maps were in the Physique volume which is not always found in ‘complete’ sets of the published accounts of the voyage. These very large charts are without a centre fold.
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Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786 - 1865)
Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786 - 1865) Important French Pacific explorer and mapmaker who joined the navy in 1802, and served as marine hydrologist to Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet aboard the Uranie (1817–1820). He commanded La Coquille on its circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825) with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second in command. On the return to France in March 1825, Lesson and Dumont brought back to France an imposing collection of animals and plants collected on the Falkland Islands, on the coasts of Chile and Peru, in the archipelagos of the Pacific and New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia. During the voyage the ship spent two weeks in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1824. He was the first to chart all of the Gilbert Islands archipelago, (Kiribati). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1861.
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