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Creator:
Choris, Louis, 1795–1828
Title(s):
Voyage pittoresque autour du monde : avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan : des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusieurs objets d'histoire naturelle : accompagné de descriptions par m. le baron Cuvier, et m. A. de Chamisso, et d'observations sur les crânes humains, par m. le docteur Gall / par m. Louis Choris, peintre.
Published/Created:
Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, imprimeur du roi, de l'Institut et de la Marine, rue Jacob, no 24, 1822 [that is, 1823]
Physical Description:
[4], VI, [154] pages, [105] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (some hand-colored), maps, portrait ; 43 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2016 33
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12820931
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Contains music.
Text by J.B.B. Eyriès.
Issued in 22 livraisons, 1821-1823. The 21st livraison ("21e et dernière livr.") 1822 was followed by a "22e et dernière livraison," 1823; the latter (2 maps with text) is wanting in some copies. The work is divided into 7 parts, paged separately and published in the following order: I. San Francisco et ses habitants. II. Îles Sandwich. III. Îles Radak. IV. Îles Aléoutiennes. V. Îles Mariannes et Philippines. VI. Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili. VII. Kamtchatka, le golfe de Kotzebue et la terre des Tchouktchis.
In the present issue only the plates illustrating natural history are colored; there is another issue in which all the plates are unclored, and a third in which all the plates except the frontispiece and 1 portrait are colored. The number of plates is given as 110 by Quérard, La France littéraire, Brunet, Grässe, and Sabin. The Catal. général ... du Département de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; Howes, 104 plates; the Bibliographie de la France, 105 plates and two maps, the Catalogue of the Brit. Mus. (Natural history) 105 plates and three maps.
Lithographs printed by Langlumé.
Expedition commanded by Otto von Kotzebue, 1815-1818.
Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, II, p. 136
Quérard, J.M. France littéraire, II, p. 198
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 12884
Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le baron James de Rothschild, 11549
Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition), C.397
Includes bibliographical references.
BAC: British Art Center copy has 105 leaves of plates. With a title page dated 1820 bound in immediately before the title page dated 1822. Bound in contemporary green half morocco and green boards.
Subject Terms:
Craniology.
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846.
Natural history.
Views.
Voyages around the world.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- 1823.
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1823.
Contributors:
Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769–1832, writer of added text.
Chamisso, Adelbert von, 1781–1838, writer of added text.
Gall, F. J. (Franz Joseph), 1758–1828, writer of added text.
Eyriès, J. B. B. (Jean Baptiste Benoît), 1767–1846, author.
Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787–1846.
Firmin-Didot (Firm), printer, publisher.
Langlumé, Pierre, 1790– lithographer.
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