Sabin, 24751 & 44491; Hill (2), 612 ; Howgego, M-43; Lada-Mocarski, 54 ; see Odile Gannier, Consigner l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement : les journaux de voyage de Marchand, in “Annales historiques de la R\u00e9volution fran\u00e7aise”, n\u00b0 320 (2000).<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, the rare in 4to issue.<\/span><\/p>\n Account of the second great circumnavigation voyage by a Frenchman, a quarter of a century after that of Bougainville, “a very important and authoritative work for the history of the northwest coast” (Lada-Mocarski).<\/p>\n The work was based on the notes and logbook of \u00c9tienne Marchand (who died in 1793) by Charles-Pierre Claret de Fleurieu (1737-1810). Other sources were incorporated into the final version: the report sent from the Ile de France in April 1792, the diary of the ship’s surgeon Claude Roblet and, above all, the diary of Captain Prosper Chenal, second in command, who was in charge of all the reconnaissance work during the expedition. The Solide’s mission, launched by private shipowners, was originally purely commercial: to explore the route taken by ships trading in skins between Nootka and Macao. Marchand left Marseille on 14 December 1790; his return, on 14 August 1792, went unnoticed due to current political events (four days after the events of 10 August).<\/p>\n Although a commercial failure, the voyage was a success from a navigational point of view \u2013 the journey was very fast \u2013 and from a geographical point of view: Marchand explored the southern lands and discovered the islands of the northern Marquesas group (Ua Pou, Nuku Hiva, Motu Hiti, Eiao, Hotutu), which he aptly named the “Isles de la R\u00e9volution”.<\/p>\n “Parti de Marseille en d\u00e9cembre [1790] sur le Solide, il doubla le Cap Horn et reconnut en d\u00e9tail l’archipel des Marquises (Nuku-Hiva, Fatu-Hiva, Hiva-Oa, Vaitahu) qu’il baptisa \u00eeles de la R\u00e9volution. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 lui le pavillon tricolore flotta pour la premi\u00e8re fois dans le Pacifique (juin 1791). Il remonta ensuite vers le Nord, chargea en Alaska une cargaison de fourrures avec laquelle il gagna Macao apr\u00e8s avoir fait escale aux \u00eeles Hawa\u00ef” (Taillemite).<\/p>\n “A most important work for the history of geographical discovery in the Northwest. Marchand’s expedition sailed around Cape Horn and, after touching at the Marquesas and Hawaii, visited Norfolk Sound, Queen Charlotte Island, Nootka Sound, and parts of the northwest coast of America, of which lenghty descriptions are given, in addition to descriptions of the Indian inhabitants. The introduction is a valuable feature of this work, as it contains Fleurieu\u2019s learned researches on the early navigators to the North Pacific, from 1537 to 1791. Among others, the voyages of Drake, Juan de Fuca, Admiral de Fuentes (de Fonte), Bering, Chirikov, Cook, La P\u00e9rouse, Meares, Portlock and Dixon, Colnet, Don Haro, and Malaspina are discussed and recapitulation given. The second volume gives nautical observations and natural history… The third volume has more natural history, Drake’s discoveries of 1578, and Roggeveen’s voyage, 1721-22, as well as a ‘Liste g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des voyageurs et des auteurs cit\u00e9s…’ The fourth volume relates to hydrography and hydrographical charts (…), as well as copies of earlier charts and new surveys of the Marquesas Islands and the northwest coast of America” (Hill).<\/p>\n Claret de Fleurieu’s introduction is a veritable essay on the exploration of the North Pacific between 1537 and 1791, with historical and critical remarks on the voyages of Drake, Juan de Fuca, Admiral de Fuentes, Bering, Chirikov, Cook, La P\u00e9rouse, Meares, Portlock and Dixon, Colnett, Don Haro and Malaspina.<\/p>\n The illustration comprises 16 plates numbered I to XV (there is a plate VI bis), including 15 folding maps (engraved by Collin, Tardieu, Bouclet and D’Houdan), and a figure engraved by Fortier after Genillion (stilts of Santa-Christina, in the Marquesas). A fine copy, well preserved in its original publisher’s binding. Text and atlas with full margins, entirely uncut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3 text volumes 4to (270 x 203 mm) and 1 large 4to volume of atlas (303 x 229 mm). Texte : XII, CXLIV, 628 pp., 2 nn.ll. (errata), a folding table (Wahitho language) for volume I; XVI, 676 pp. 1 nn.l. (errata) for volume II; XI, 431 pp. 1 nn.l (errata) for volume III. Atlas : 1 blank l., 1 nn.l (title), VIII, 158 pp. 1 nn.l (table) and 16 engraved plates (numbered 1-15, 6bis). 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Light waterstain on the inner corner of the atlas.<\/p>\n