DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert Carte Generale du Globe

“Carte trace de la route Suivie par la frigate la Venus” (Louis Freycinet)

By DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert , 1841

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Carte Generale du Globe

pour servir au voyage de circumnavigation de la Fregate La Venus. Sous le commandement de M. Du Petit-Thouars, Capitaine de vaisseau, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, 1836-1839.

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DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert
[Paris,
Gide,
1841].
Separate issue. Double-page engraved chart, with contemporary hand-colour in full, frayed at the edges.
850 by 590mm (33.5 by 23.25 inches).
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A separately issued example. Subsequently published in the official account of Petit-Thouars 'Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Fregate la Venus pendant les annees 1836-1839' (1840-1843).

The voyage, "ostensibly to report on the whale fisheries in the Pacific, was actually primarily political in nature. The presence of the frigate 'Venus' in ports around the world would be of value to French commerce and diplomacy,... Du Petit-Thouars's account of his stay in Califor...

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Hill, 'Pacific', 518.

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Provenance
1. Inscribed on the verso, in a near contemporary hand: "Carte trace de la route Suivie par la frigate la Venus";
2. Freycinet family archives