langle fleuriot 1744 1787 (1 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. SUIRE Louis 1899-1987 (illustrateur). Limited Edition. VG, limited edition, 32 illustrations. In soft plain paper covers with coloured pictorial wrap, titles in green and black, a little edge spotting. Spine with titles in black and some short edge tears along joints. Internally, half title with limitation to verso, coloured frontis, title page with coloured vignette and some text in green, [8], 9-134 pp, [1], [1], [5] tables, 3 full page illustrations, 29 within text, no inscriptions, printed by Jean Foucher et Cie, a La Rochelle, France, an edition limited to 690 copies of which 310 were coloured, as is our copy. Langle was a French vicomte, académicien de marine, naval commander and explorer. He was second in command of the La Pérouse expedition, which departed France on 1 August 1785 and was eventually lost in the Pacific. Fleuriot de Langle died in an encounter with natives in what is now American Samoa before the expedition was lost. See WIKI.