Femme de L’Ile Guam: Josephe Cortez.

Rare engraving from the original edition of the Louis De Freycinet’s voyage on the L’Uranie. From Louis Claude de S. de Freycinet’s, &quotVoyage autour du Monde… Historique&quot. Note the Historique which contained the topographical views volume was published in 1828. In 1817, he commanded the Uranie, in which Louis Isidore Duperrey, Jacques Arago, Adrien Taunay the Younger and others went to Rio de Janeiro, to take a series of pendulum measurements as well as a larger scheme for obtaining observations, not only in geography and ethnology, but in astronomy, terrestrial magnetism, and meteorology, and for the collection of specimens in natural history. The voyage visited Australia, Mariana Islands, Hawaii, Timor, Guam, Indonesian Islands and New Zealand.