Voyage de la Coquile, New Zealand plate 41: Nouvelle-Zelande. 42: Cascade de Fanafaoua pres du Village de Kidikidi. 43. Etablissement des Missionaires Anglais a Kidikidi, (Nouvelle-Zelande.) 44: Habitants de la Nouvell

The finest c.19th colour printed engravings made of New Zealand subjects, from the very rare account recording the voyage of La Coquile under the command of Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865) and his deputy Jules Dumont D’Urville during the years 1822-1825. La Coquille visited the Bay of Islands, New Zealand from 3rd to 17th April 1824.

Collection of all seven of the engravings from ‘Voyage autour du Monde‘, (Atlas Historic).
Titles of Plates;
40: Nouvelle-Zelande.
41: Nouvelle-Zelande.
42: Cascade de Fanafaoua pres du Village de Kidikidi.
43. Etablissement des Missionaires Anglais a Kidikidi, (Nouvelle-Zelande.)
44: Habitants de la Nouvelle-Zelande.
45: Pirogue des Habitants de la Nouvelle-Zelande.
46: Habitants de la Nouvelle-Zelande.

Louis-Isidore Duperrey led the Coquille’s global expedition (1822–1825), with Jules Dumont d’Urville as second-in-command. René-Primevère Lesson, a naval doctor and naturalist, also joined the voyage. Upon their return in March 1825, Dumont and Lesson brought an extensive collection of flora and fauna from the Falkland Islands, Chile, Peru, the Pacific archipelagos, New Zealand, New Guinea, and Australia to France. Duperrey’s was one of the major French Pacific voyages of the nineteenth century. As the leader of this expedition, he had already circumnavigated the globe under Freycinet and with Dumont-d’Urville, who would later lead his own expeditions. Duperrey was second-in-command, and Rene Lesson was the naturalist of the voyage. The Coquille called at Brazil, the Falkland Islands, Concepcion, Callao, and Payta. In the Pacific, the ship visited the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Tonga, Rotuma, the Gilbert and Caroline Islands, and the Bismarck Archipelago. Australia was visited twice, and the explorations made of New Zealand and the Maori culture were particularly significant. Vast quantities of ethnographic and scientific data were collected. Before returning to Marseilles, Java, Mauritius, and Ascension were visite. (Hill 517).

From Duperrey, Louis-Isidore, Voyage autour du Monde, execute per ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette La Coquille de sa Majeste, pendant les annies 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Hydrographie Atlas

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Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: ark:/12148/bpt6k850917m
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 2256057
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74Vvrg2DKLOl
State Library Victoria: RARESEF 508.3 D92 (Histoire)