ADAM JOHANN VON KRUSENSTERN (1770-1846) Atlas de l'Ocean Pacifique. St. Petersburg: 'Par Ordre de Sa Majesté Impériale', 1824. 2° (678 x 523mm). Engraved title-page, dedication leaf and 15 maps engraved by S. Froloff, 6 double-page, 9 single-page, numbered 1-15 and dated in the cartouche, 1824; some plates with more than 1 map, some with inserts, one with a folding extension. (Without list of maps or half-title, one corner chipped, not within plate mark). Original blue-grey boards, printed paper label to upper board (skilfully rebacked, maps on guards, corners restored). Recueil de Mémoires Hydrographiques, pour servir d'Analyse et d'Explication a l'Atlas de l'Océan Pacifique. Saint Petersburg: de l'Imprimerie du Départment de l'Instruction Publique, 1824. 4° (195 x 185mm). 4-page dedication, half-titles, contents leaf. (Title and a few leaves closely shaved, leaves to Supplement folded at outer margin, bifolium 37/2.3 supplied in facsimile, bound as usual without the map of the Cook Islands). Modern grey boards backed in white, printed paper label. FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE VERY RARE ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE and one of the most important atlases of the Pacific. Krusenstern, the 'Hydrographer of the Pacific', compiled these maps from information gathered on his world voyage of 1803-1806 and from earlier and subsequent voyages. The 'Carte Génerale' bears the name 'Australia' for the first time on a chart and details such minutiae as identifiable houses near Honolulu. The introductory text of the Recueil on winds and currents is followed by 20 memoirs relating to the maps, with full particulars on the various islands and archipelagos, straits and capes, their discovery, names of their discoverers and re-discoverers, year of discovery, compass bearings, size and configuration. An additional note comments on Espinosa y Tello's 1809 Observaciones Astronomicas relating to his Pacific voyage as part of Malaspina's great expedition of 1789-1794. The French edition of part II of the atlas, 19 maps of the Northern Hemisphere, nos. 16-34, and its accompanying Recueil published in 1827, with a Supplement to the text in 1835, are not present here. The entire atlas was first published with captions in Cyrillic in 1824, 1826. Forbes notes that complete copies of the Atlas and Recueil are rarely found. Lada-Mocarski 91; Forbes 581, 582; Sabin 38329; Arctic Bibliography 9375. Not in Hill. (2)
ADAM JOHANN VON KRUSENSTERN (1770-1846) Atlas de l'Ocean Pacifique. St. Petersburg: 'Par Ordre de Sa Majesté Impériale', 1824. 2° (678 x 523mm). Engraved title-page, dedication leaf and 15 maps engraved by S. Froloff, 6 double-page, 9 single-page, numbered 1-15 and dated in the cartouche, 1824; some plates with more than 1 map, some with inserts, one with a folding extension. (Without list of maps or half-title, one corner chipped, not within plate mark). Original blue-grey boards, printed paper label to upper board (skilfully rebacked, maps on guards, corners restored). Recueil de Mémoires Hydrographiques, pour servir d'Analyse et d'Explication a l'Atlas de l'Océan Pacifique. Saint Petersburg: de l'Imprimerie du Départment de l'Instruction Publique, 1824. 4° (195 x 185mm). 4-page dedication, half-titles, contents leaf. (Title and a few leaves closely shaved, leaves to Supplement folded at outer margin, bifolium 37/2.3 supplied in facsimile, bound as usual without the map of the Cook Islands). Modern grey boards backed in white, printed paper label. FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE VERY RARE ATLAS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE and one of the most important atlases of the Pacific. Krusenstern, the 'Hydrographer of the Pacific', compiled these maps from information gathered on his world voyage of 1803-1806 and from earlier and subsequent voyages. The 'Carte Génerale' bears the name 'Australia' for the first time on a chart and details such minutiae as identifiable houses near Honolulu. The introductory text of the Recueil on winds and currents is followed by 20 memoirs relating to the maps, with full particulars on the various islands and archipelagos, straits and capes, their discovery, names of their discoverers and re-discoverers, year of discovery, compass bearings, size and configuration. An additional note comments on Espinosa y Tello's 1809 Observaciones Astronomicas relating to his Pacific voyage as part of Malaspina's great expedition of 1789-1794. The French edition of part II of the atlas, 19 maps of the Northern Hemisphere, nos. 16-34, and its accompanying Recueil published in 1827, with a Supplement to the text in 1835, are not present here. The entire atlas was first published with captions in Cyrillic in 1824, 1826. Forbes notes that complete copies of the Atlas and Recueil are rarely found. Lada-Mocarski 91; Forbes 581, 582; Sabin 38329; Arctic Bibliography 9375. Not in Hill. (2)
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