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Carte de L'archipel des isles Gilbert

et de la partie meridionale de l'archipel des iles Marshall, Dresse par M.L.I. Duperrey Capitaine de Frigate. Expedition de la Corvette de S.M. la Coquille (Mai 1824).

DUPERREY, Louis-Isidor
[Paris,
Firmin Didot for Arthus Bertrand,
1827-1829].
Engraved chart.
580 by 420mm (22.75 by 16.5 inches).
22661

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notes:

notes:

The first complete chart of the sixteen atolls that make up the Gilbert Islands, now Kiribati, part of Micronesia.

Plate number 26 from the Atlas volume to the 'Hydrographie' of Duperrey's 'Voyage autour du Monde, executé per ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette La Coquille de sa Majesté, pendant les annies 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825'.
The 'Coquille' "called at Brazil, the Falkland islands, Concepcion, Callao, and Payta. The Pacific islands visited were the Tuamotu A...

bibliography:

bibliography:

Hill, 'Pacific', 517.

provenance:

provenance:

Provenance
1. Probably Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet;
2. Freycinet family archives