Sabin, 22671-72 ; Hill, 467 ; Ferguson, I, 461 ; O’Reilly, Bibl. de la Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie, 82; Taillemite, dictionnaire des marins fran\u00e7ais, p. 111-112.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition.<\/span><\/p>\n It contains the account of the rescue expedition of Rear-Admiral d’Entrecasteaux (1737-1793). This expedition, which left between 1791 and 1794, was a relief mission ordered by the Constituent Assembly. Two ships, La Recherche<\/i> and L’Esp\u00e9rance<\/i>, were armed as frigates, with the aim of finding traces of La P\u00e9rouse’s expedition in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n It was also a voyage of scientific exploration, useful for navigation, geography, commerce, the arts and the sciences, with resources superior to those of La P\u00e9rouse. But many of the crew did not survive the voyage. The expedition failed in its primary mission of finding \u2018Monsieur de La P\u00e9rouse\u2019, but it did provide new topographical knowledge of many of the islands in the Indian Ocean, as well as numerous discoveries, particularly in botany. Thanks to the work of Beautemps-Beaupr\u00e9, it was a laboratory for modern hydrography.<\/p>\n The expedition’s scientific committee included the following famous researchers: Amboise Pierson (? -1796; astronomer) – Miroir-Jouvency (1754-1798; geographer) – Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardi\u00e8re (1755-1834; botanist, naturalist) – Claude Bertrand (1757-1792; geographer, astronomer, encyclopaedist) – Claude Antoine Gaspard Riche (1762-1798; botanist, naturalist) – Jean Blavier (1764-1828; botanist, naturalist, mineralogist) – Louis Ventenat (1765-1794; naturalist and ship’s chaplain) – Louis Auguste Deschamps de Pas (1765-1842; botanist, naturalist) – Charles-Fran\u00e7ois Beautemps-Beaupr\u00e9 (1766-1854; hydrographic engineer, cartographer).<\/p>\n The text is illustrated with 33 folding plates; the atlas, published in 1807, contains 39 maps and plans. A particularly important account of the nautical details of this voyage to the South Seas. The charts that make up the atlas of the voyage were drawn up by the hydrographic engineer Beautemps-Beaupr\u00e9, and the measurements taken with the aid of the Borda reflection circle helped to clarify the geography of these distant lands. During this voyage, D’Entrecasteaux’s ships were stopped by the Dutch in Java. The logbook and collections seized by the English were not returned to France until 1802.<\/p>\n \u201c[Promoted] to Rear-Admiral in September 1791, he was given command of the Recherche<\/i> and the Esp\u00e9rance<\/i>, which were sent in search of the missing Lap\u00e9rouse. He took with him a scientific team (the botanist La Billardi\u00e8re, the hydrographer Beautemps-Beaupr\u00e9), which enabled him to make numerous astronomical, nautical, ethnological and other observations. Leaving via the Cape of Good Hope, he reconnoitered Amsterdam Island, reached the southern shores of Australia, reconnoitered Tasmania, the insularity of which he guessed, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands and the Admiralty, then went to rest his crews in Amboine (September 1792). Leaving again five weeks later, she headed for New Holland, stopped off in the Tonga Islands and returned to New Caledonia where Kermadec, commander of the Esp\u00e9rance<\/i>, died. On 9 May 1793, she set sail for the north, crossed the Santa Cruz Islands and passed unsuspectingly a few miles from Vanikoro, where the Lap\u00e9rouse disaster had occurred\u2019 (see Taillemite).<\/p>\n “D’Entrecasteaux, French admiral and governor of Mauritius, was sent to the Pacific in 1791 to search for La P\u00e9rouse. No traces of the lost expedition were found, but in the course of his search d’Entrecasteaux made important geographical discoveries. He commanded the Recherche and the Esp\u00e9rance. The second captain was Huon Kermadec, after whom the islands north of New Zealand were named. The naturalist for the expedition was Jacques Julien de Labillardi\u00e8re. They explored the west and southwest coasts of Australia, the south coast of Tasmania, the west coast of New Caledonia, and visited Tonga and the Santa Cruz Islands. The D’Entrecasteaux Islands near New Guinea were discovered and named for the admiral, who later died of colic off the north coast of New Guinea. The French Revolution divided the expedition; the royalists joined the Dutch on Java, and the Republicans fell into the hands of the British Royal Navy. Also captured were the expedition’s journal, charts, and natural history specimens. Sir Joseph Banks ordered that they be delivered to the coast of France under a flag of truce” (Hill).<\/p>\n “Du 20 juin au 2 juillet (1792), il longea les r\u00e9cifs qui bordent la c\u00f4te ouest de la Cal\u00e9donie sur une longueur de plus de 300 milles, tandis que Beautemps-Baupr\u00e9 dresse sous voile la carte de l’lle. D’Entrecasteaux d\u00e9couvre plusieurs \u00eelots (\u00eelots Huon et Surprise) au nord de la Cal\u00e9donie et d\u00e9termine la position du r\u00e9cit qui porte son nom. Il ne p\u00e9n\u00e9tra pas dans le r\u00e9cif. Mais reconnait (le 21 juin) Port-Saint- Vincent, qu’il d\u00e9nomme le Havre trompeur faute d’en avoir su d\u00e9couvrir la passe. Le 23. Ils aper\u00e7oivent des indig\u00e8nes, le 22, d\u00e9nomment le cap Goulvain du nom du maitre d’\u00e9quipage de la Recherche et, le 28, le cap Tonnerre \u2013 du nom du maitre d’\u00e9quipage de l’Esp\u00e9rance. Apr\u00e8s avoir visit\u00e9 les archipels situ\u00e9s \u00e0 l’ouest et au nord de la Nouvelle-Guin\u00e9e et l’archipel des Amis, sans y avoir trouv\u00e9 des traces de La P\u00e9rouse, et apr\u00e8s avoir contourn\u00e9 l’Australie, d’Entrecasteaux revient en Cal\u00e9donie et mouille le 19 avril 1793 \u00e0 Balade, au lieu m\u00eame o\u00f9 Cook avait s\u00e9journ\u00e9. L’exp\u00e9dition y restera jusqu’au 1o mai. Pendant que les matelots font de l’eau et du bois, les savants se livrent \u00e0 leurs occupations : La Billardi\u00e8re et La Haye herborisent et recueillent des sp\u00e9cimens d’oiseaux, Bonvouloir fait des observations astronomiques, P\u00e9ron dessine. Les relations avec les indig\u00e8nes ne vont pas sans heurts : la discipline des \u00e9quipages fran\u00e7ais est loin d’\u00eatre aussi stricte que celle de Cook. Il y a des vols, des indig\u00e8nes tu\u00e9s par des coups de feu, la famine est extr\u00eame… On croit bon d’enterrer sur l’ilot, de nuit, secr\u00e8tement, Huon de Kermadec, le commandant de l’Esp\u00e9rance, mort le 6 mai, par crainte d’une exhumation par les indig\u00e8nes, cannibales. Le 9 mai l’exp\u00e9dition quitte Balade. Les navires s’en furent reconna\u00eetre les r\u00e9cifs que Cook avait d\u00e9couverts au N.-O. de la Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie. D’Entrecasteaux mourut en mer, de dysenterie et de scorbut, en juillet 1793, quelques semaines apr\u00e8s son passage en Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie. Le premier r\u00e9cit de son exp\u00e9dition contient des d\u00e9tails sur les indig\u00e8nes qui compl\u00e8tent ou confirment ceux de Cook” (O\u2019Reilly).<\/p>\n Very nice copy, attractively bound and complete with all plates called for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2 text volumes, 4to (287 x 215 mm), and the atlas, large folio (555 x 428 mm). 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