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Hachette. 1972. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 223 pages. Illustré de nombreuses cartes en couleur. Index à part (solidaire du 2e plat).. . . . Classification Dewey : 912-Atlas, cartes et plans
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Composite atlas consisting of 129 maps from ""Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas"", ""Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas"", ""Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas"" and ""Atlas in 64 Karten"".
Hildburghausen, Joseph Meyer, Bibliographischen Institut, 1848-1853 Folio-oblong (320 x 270 mm). In contemporary half calf. 129 handcoloured maps (Se below for a list of the maps) from ""Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas"", ""Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas"", ""Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas"" and ""Atlas in 64 Karten"". Wear to extremities and hindges weak. All maps brownspottet, primarily affecting margins. A few maps with annotations in pencil and provisional repairs with tape.
LIST OF MAPS CONTAINED IN THE ATLAS: Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas – Die Oestliche und Westliche Halbkugel der Erde, 1849 Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Welt-Charte in Mercators Projektion 1852 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas No. 60 – Erd Karte Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas No 82 – Orbis Veteribus Notus Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Europa Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Asien, 1852 Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Africa, 1852 Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas – America, 1849 Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas – Asiatischer Archipel und Neu Holland, 1849 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas No. 42 – Der Grosse Ocean und Australien 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas No 115 – Asia-Eüropa Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Palestina Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 54 – Ostindien, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, 65 – Palaestina Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Das Asiatische Russland, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 127 – Das Osmanische Reich, 1854. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No 43 – China-Propria, 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Marocco Algier und Tunis, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 14 – Agypten, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 101 – Senegambien, 1850 Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – N & S. Carolina, Georgia & Florida, 1853. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Maine New Hampshire, 1853 Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – New York, Pennsylvania, 185. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Californien, Texas, New Mexico u. Utah, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Arkensas, Mississippi, Louisiana & Alabama, 1853. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Nord-America und Mexico, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Nord-America, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Süd-America mit Patagonia, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 81 – Bolivia, Brasilien, Paraguay, Chile, La Plata, 1850. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Ecuador und Venezuela, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – West Indien und MIttel America. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Brasilien, 1852. Atlas in 64 Karten, No. 10 – Süd-Africa. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Imperium Romanum Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Italia Media. Atlas in 64 Karten, No. 35 – Italia Superior Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Hispania Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 77 – Græcia Antiqua. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 87 – Italia Inferior. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 82 – Peloponnesus. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 112 – Germanae, Galliae. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 122 – Das Adriameer, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 119 – Italien, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – beider Sicilien, 1853 Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Sicilien und Calabrien, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 86 – Ober Italien. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 49 – Frankreich, 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Paris und Gegend. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Sardinien, 1852 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 24 – Spanien und Portugal. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 38 – Portugal, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 32 – Gross-Britanien und Ireland 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – England, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – London, 1853. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Scotland, 1852 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No 26 – Ireland, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas – Belgien und Holland, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 6 – Holland, 1849 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 66 – Belgien und Luxemburg, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 2 – Dänemark und Holstein, 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Schweden Norwegen und Dänemark. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Südliches Schweden, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Südliche’s Norwegen, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 7 – Europäische Russland, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 50 – Russland. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Grieshenland, 1852. Atlas in 64 Karten, No. 43 – Creta, 1838. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Türkey, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 85 – Rumelien, Bulgarien und Walachei, 1850. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Serbien, Bosnien, Montenegriner, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Schweiz, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Schwarzen Meeres, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Polen. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas, No. 2 – Deutschland. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 7 – Bayern, Würtemberg. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 125 – Baden, 1854. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Donau Kreis, 1853. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Rhein Bayern, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas – Grosshz GTH. Hessen, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 12 – Naassau, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 35 – Hessen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 105 – Waldeck, 1850. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Braunschweig, 1853. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Hannover. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 83 – Anhalt Dessau. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 20 – Thüringen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 25 – Sachsen-Weimar. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Sachs.Meiningen, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 113 – Schwarzburg, 1851. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 37 – Mecklenburg, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 111 – Oldenburg, 1851. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Holstein, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Schleswig, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 21 – Preussen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 59, Niederbrhein, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 43 – Iülich-Cleveberg, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 53 – Westphalen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 34 – Brandenburg, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 25 – Sachsen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 16 – Schlesien, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 31 – Pommern, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 39 – Ost-Preussen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 27 – West-Preussen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 40 – Posen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 3 – Oesterreich, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 47 – Oesterreich: Ob der Enns, 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Oesterreich Unter der Enns, 1853. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 117 – Kærnthen, 1852. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Tyrol, 1852. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 51 – Böhmen, 1849. Meyer’s Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, No. 13 – Ungarn, Siebenbürgen, 1849. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Lombardisch-Venetianisches, 1853 Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 96 – Umrisse der Pflanzengeographie. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Übersicht der Kulturpflanzen. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 110 – Karte von Europa. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 94 – Europa Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Höhen und Orte Erde. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 104 – Stromlängen. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Hyetographische Karte der Erde. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Windkarte der Erde. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Magnetischen Meridiane. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Magnet-Karte Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 93 – Die Isothermkurven Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Mittelamerica. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Die Vulkan Gürtel des Atlantischen Oceans. Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 98 – Karte der Grossen Ocean. Meyer’s Groschen-Atlas – Indischen Meere Meyer’s Zeitungs-Atlas, No. 97 – Deutschen Meere
Geographiae Blauianae volumen septimum, quo liber XIV,XV, Europae continentur. (France and Switzerland). - [BLAEU'S ATLAS MAJOR ON FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND]
Amsterdam, Labore & Sumptibus - Johannis Blaeu, 1662. Large folio (350 x 545 mm). In publisher’s full vellum binding with central gilt arabesque and armillary sphere. All edges gilt. Boards with stains and marks. Outer margin on back board with waterstain. Small stamp on front free end-paper, lower part of title-page and lower part of frontiespiece (The Royal Danish Geographical Society). Occassional light brownpostting throughout. Approximately 50 leaves with waterstain in outer margin, primarily affecting last part. (4), 256, (2), 78, (2) + 70 engraved maps. Complete, corresponds to Koemann Bl 56, 220.
First edition of volume seven, containing France and Switzerland, of Blaeu’s monumental Atlas Major, one of the most significant works of the 17th century widely considered to be one of the greatest atlases ever produced. It was the most expensive book that could be acquired in the mid-17th century. The Atlas Major was a significant achievement in the history of cartography and it represented a major step forward in the development of the modern atlas. Most of the present maps were issued in previous editions of Blaeu’s atlases from the 1630s onwards, and derive variously from Maurice Bouguereau’s Le Théatre Francoys (1594), Jean le Clerc’s Le Théatre géographique du Royaume de France (1619), as well as from other maps by Hondius and Janssonius. ""There are a small number of newer maps of France, some of which derived from the Geographer to the King of France, Pierre Du Val. The six maps of Switzerland in the atlas had been in print for several decades: four of them were copied from Mercator’s 1585 Galliae Tabulae geographicae."" (National Library of Scotland). The Atlas Major was notable for its high level of accuracy and detail. The maps were based on the latest geographical knowledge and featured state-of-the-art cartographic techniques, such as the use of latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates, and a sophisticated system of map projection. The maps were also notable for their beautiful engravings and illustrations, which were produced by some of the most talented artists of the time. The Atlas Maior was a major commercial success and it was widely used by scholars, navigators, and government officials. It was translated into several languages, and it became the standard reference work for cartography and geography during the 17th century. Atlas Major was subsequently published with French, Dutch, German, and Spanish texts. Koemann Bl 56, 220.
Atlas Minor L. Selectorum Tabularum Homanni. Kleiner Atlas von Fünffzig Auserlesenen Homanns=Land=Karten, Nach Anleitung der neuesten Erd=Beschreibere, verbessert und eingerichtet...(= Printed title) - (Engraved title:) Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Impe... - [AN EARLY COMPLETE HOMANN-ATLAS]
Nürnberg, Homannischen Officin, n.date (maps ca 1720-39). Large folio. 54,5x32 cm. Contemporary, probably original, limp full calf with flap (""portmanteau""). (Only 4 maps with dating: 2 with 1732, 1728 and 1739).Cover with blind-tooled frames inside which a crowned monogram and the number 50 (= number of plates). Binding worn at edges, covers and back somewhat rubbed. Flap torn and partly with an old repair. Fine allegorical engraved hand-coloured title, printed title with Index (these 2 leaves strengthened in lower margin, no loss of image), and all 49 engraved maps, all in fine original hand-colouring and in double-folio. In excellent condition, with large cartouches (cartouches uncoloured). A few maps with insignificant small tears in folding. The title-page engraved by Michael Rössler, pointing to an early issue of the atlas, and before the publishing house had its name changed to Homann Erben (from 1730).
A fine, complete and early atlas from the famous Nürnberger map-maker and publisher, J.B. Homann, geographer to the Kaiser (Emperor). The atlas comprises: Engraved Title. The hemispheres. Europe. Asia. Africa. America. Spain & Portugal. France (Galliæ). England. Holland & Belgium. Belgia etc.. Holland. Schweitz. Italy. Savoye. Milano etc.. Florenz. Naples. Sicily. Germany. Austria. German Provinces 18 maps. Slesvig. Holstein. Scandinavia. Denmark. Sweden & Finland. Poland. Preussen. Russia. Hungary & Greece. Palestine.
Atlas des Indes Occidentales, ou Description Géo-Hydrographique des Régions, des Côtes, des Isles, & des Mers, connues sous le nom d'Indes Occidentales, dans laquelle On trouve réunis tous les Détails Géographiques & Nautiques qui appartiennent à c... - [THE WEST-INDIES]
London, Robert Sayer & Jean Bennett, 1777. [Engraved title: London, Sayer & Bennett, 1775]. Folio. Recently bound in a magnificent pastiche-binding of brown half calf with six raised bands and gilt red leather title-label to elaborately gilt spine. Vellum corners and lovely marbled paper over boards. The binding is made over the original one, preserving the original sewn spine underneath as well as the original end-papers. An excellent, beautiful copy. Very clean and fresh. Only minor, light browning to a few maps, and last map with a bit more staining. One map with a small tear to lower margin, far from effecting engraving. Previously in the possession the Danish medieval estate Ravnholt, since the 18th century owned by the noble family of Sehestedt Juul, with discreet stamps from this ownership to title-page: ""Sehestedt Juel"" and ""Rauenholdts Bibliothek"". Title-page (French) + 6 pp. of preface (French) + (2) pp. of index (French) + double-page engraved, illustrated title (English) + 36 double-page and 3 single-page engraved maps, all (but one) dated London, Sayer, 1775 (one map - Antigua - without the year, but London, Sayer).
Scarce first French edition - consisting in all the original 39 maps of the 1775 English edition (all (but Antigua) dated 1775) and the engraved double title-page in English, preceded by a French title, preliminary discourse (also in French), and index - of Jeffery's seminal West-India atlas, one of the most important works on the West Indies and the work that we have to thank for the introduction of ""Carribean"" as the designation that was to become standard on maps. The work played a pivotal rôle in the geo- and cartographical denomination of places and areas in this part of the world. In his preface, Jefferys does away with previous terms applied by geographers: ""La division des Espagnols, & elle se trouve tout-à la fois physique & politique, fut adoptée bientôt par les Anglois, les Hollandois & queslques autres peuples"" la plûpart des navigateurs & des marchands en s'y conformant, ont imposé depuis longtemps à tous les Géographes la nécessité de diviser l'Amerique en trois parties, savoir, ""Amerique du Nord"", ""Indes Occidentales"", ""Amerique du Sud."" Mais les Géographes, surtout les Francois, ont perséveré dans leur ancienne division, probablement parce qu'ils aiment à se répéter, & souvent aussi à se copier l'un l'autre."" (From the preface, p.2). (i.e.: ""The division of the Spanish, and this is found in both physics & polics, was soon adopted by the English, the Dutch & some other populations"" the main part of navigators and merchants have complyed herewith and have long made clear to geographers the necessity to divide America into three parts, namely, ""North America"", ""West Indies"", ""South America."" But geographers, especially the French, have persevered in their old division, probably because they like to repeat, and often also to copy, one another"").But not only does Jefferys extend this denominal division of America to geographers and cartographers, he also (re-)introduces the designation that was to become standard of the Caribbean: ""Les premier Espagnols l'appellèrent Mer du Nord lorsqu'ils eurent découvert une nouvelle mer au delà de l'isthme de Panama. Quelquefois on lui a donné le nom de ""Mer Caribe"" ou ""Caribenne"", qu'il auroit mieux volu adopter que de laisser anonyme un aussi vaste espace."" (From the preface, p. 2, 1).- ""Although the best-known sea of the New World, the Caribbean remained nameless longest. It was the original Mar del Norte, a term promptly extended to all parts of the western atlantic. Velasco tried to find a proper name for it, saying: ""de los Canibales llaman el golfo grande del mar Océano desde de Deseada y Dominica por toda la costa de Tierra Firme, Yucatán, Golfo de Tierra Firme y de las islas del mar del Norte."" This compiler in Spain, regarding the maps before him, made the distinction we do between Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. (Gulf of Tierra Firme was that of Darién.) Velasco remained in manuscript until the nineteenth century, and I do not know that his Gulf of the Cannibals was ever thus known. In the introduction to his ""West Indian Atlas"", Thomas Jefferys wrote, two centuries later: ""It has been sometimes called the Caribbean-Sea, which name it would be better to adopt, than to leave this space quite anonymous"""" he did so on his map. North European nations at the time were in possession of the Carib islands (the Lesser Antilles) and it is perhaps thus that Jefferys introduced the designation that was to become standard on maps but was not adopted in Spanish lands."" (C.O. Sauer, ""The Early Spanish Main"", p. 2). As one of the earliest documentations of the West Indies, Jefferys' seminal ""West-India Atlas"" was informed by prevailing attitudes about the legitimacy of Britain's colonial enterprises and contemporary debates surrounding the abolition and emancipation movements and played a significant rôle in the spreading of knowledge regarding this part of the world. Jefferys himself, one of the most prominent and prolific map publishers and engravers of his day, was opposed to the slave-trade, which unfortunately hinged upon the sugar trade that the atlas was designed to aid, and also spoke out against it. The English cartographer Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719-1771), ""Royal Geographer to King George III"" was the leading map supplier of his day and as such had access to information that many other cartographers did not. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, most famously of America and the West Indies.Having died in 1771, he did not live to see the publication of his great ""West India Atlas"", which was published by Robert Sayer, who, in partnership with John Bennett, had acquired his maps. Thus, the West India Atlas was published posthumously, under Jefferys' name. Philips III:p. 570.
Voyage... envoye a la Recherce de la Perouse. 2 tomes + atlas. - [GIFT-COPY, BY ORDER OF NAPOLEON]
Paris, 1807 (atlas) - 1808 (text). 2 large 4to + 1 folio. All three volumes bound in contemporary half calf with gilding to spines - text volumes uniform. TEXT: Volume 1 with a split front hinge, but block still tight. A patch of paper missing from back board. Both volumes with some edge wear and bumped corners. Old paper labels to inside of front boards, and a stamp to half-titles and title-pages. A bit of brownspotting, but mostly marginal. Overall, most text-leaves are clean and bright. The plates in vol. 1 have some, mostly marginal, brownspotting. Both volumes with wide margins. Some of the text is printed on blue-ish paper. (4), LVI, 704 pp. & 32 folded engraved plates + (4), VIII, 691 pp. & 1 folded plate. Many tables with astronomical observations. In all 33 folded plates. ATLAS: Wear to extremities and bumped corners. Inner front hinge re-enforced. Top right blank corner of title-page repaired, far from affecting text. A stamp to title-page. A bit of brownspotting, mostly marginal. The last ab. 10 maps with a damp stain in the middle. The reast are very nice and bright. 4 (title-page + contents-leaf) pp. & 39 maps and charts, 29 of which are double-page. Fully complete with all 33 folded plates in the text-volumes and all 39 maps and charts in the atlas-volume. A contemporary handwritten note to the title-page of the atlas stating that THE COPY WAS GIVEN TO ADMIRAL VAN DOCKUM AT THE ORDER OF NAPOLEON I. (""à Mr. le Conte-Admiral Joost Van Dockum,/ par ordre de Sm l'Empereur Napoléon 1e."")
A gift-copy, ordered by Napoleon I - for the Danish admiral that had earned himself great personal admiration from Napoleon - of the first edition of this magnificent travel account, which is famous for its exploration of the Australian coast while searching for the lost Pérouse expedition that had vanished in Oceania.The excellent maps and charts of this foundational publication are made by the expedition's first hydrographical engineer, C.F Beautemps-Beaupré, who is now regarded as the father of modern French hydrography, due to his work on the present expedition. The charts published here, in the atlas volume under the title ""Atlas du Voyage de Bruny-Dentrecasteaux"", in 1807 were very detailed and remained the source of the English charts of the area for many years. Those of Van Diemen's Land were the exceptionally detailed and have contributed greatly to our knowledge of the area. In September 1791, the French Assembly decided to send an expedition in search of Jean-François de La Pérouse, who had not been heard of since leaving Botany Bay in March 1788. Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was selected to command this expedition and was given a frigate, Recherche with Lieutenant Jean-Louis d'Hesmity-d'Auribeau as his second-in-command, Rossel among the other officers, and Beautemps-Beaupré as hydrographer of the expedition.On September 28, the expedition left Brest. The plan of the voyage was to proceed to New Holland in Australia, to sight Cape Leeuwin, then to hug the shore closely all the way to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), inspecting every possible harbour in a rowing boat, and then to sail for the Friendly Islands (Tonga) via the northern cape of New Zealand (allowing gardener Félix Delahaye to collect live breadfruit plants for transport to the French West Indies). After that, D'Entrecasteaux was to follow Pérouse's intended route in the Pacific. However, when Bruni d'Entrecasteaux reached Table Bay, Cape Town on 17 January 1792, he heard a report that Captain John Hunter (later to be Governor of New South Wales) had recently seen - off the Admiralty Islands - canoes manned by natives wearing French uniforms and belts. Although Hunter denied this report, and although the Frenchmen heard of the denial, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux determined to make directly to the Admiralty Islands, nowadays part of Papua New Guinea, taking water and refreshing his crew at Van Diemen's Land. On 20 April 1792, that land was in sight, and three days later the ships anchored in a harbour, which he named Recherche Bay. For the next five weeks, until 28 May 1792, the Frenchmen carried out careful boat explorations which revealed in detail the beautiful waterways and estuaries in the area.Beautemps-Beaupré, while surveying the coasts with Lieutenant Crétin, discovered that Adventure Bay was on an island, separated from the mainland by a fine navigable channel. On May 16, d'Entrecasteaux commenced to sail the ships through the channel and succeeded in 12 days. Port Esperance, the Huon River, and other features were discovered, named, and charted, the admiral's names being given to the channel (D'Entrecasteaux Channel) and the large island (Bruny Island) separated by it from the mainland.On May 28, 1792 the ships sailed into the Pacific to search for La Pérouse. On June 17, they arrived off the Isle of Pines, south of New Caledonia. From there, d'Entrecasteaux sailed northward along the western coast of New Caledonia. (The Bruni d'Entrecasteaux reefs at the northwestern end of the New Caledonia Barrier Reef are named for him.) He then passed the Solomon Islands along their southern or western coasts, sailed through Saint George's Channel between New Ireland and New Britain, and on July 28 sighted the south-east coast of the Admiralty Islands. After that he set sail for Ambon (in modern-day Indonesia), where his ships replenished their stores.Leaving Amboina on October 14, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux made for Cape Leeuwin, the south-western extremity of Australia, to carry out his original instructions of searching southern New Holland for La Pérouse. On December 6, land was sighted near Cape Leeuwin, and named ""D'Entrecasteaux Point"". They ended up sailing further east and penetrated numerous islands and dangerous shoals, to which they gave the name ""D'Entrecasteaux Islands"" (later changed to the Recherche Archipelago).After a violent storm in December, the ships continued eastward to the head of the Great Australian Bight, and on January 4, 1793, Bruni d'Entrecasteaux was forced to leave the coast at a position near Bruni d'Entrecasteaux Reef and sail direct to Van Diemen's Land (this decision was unfortunate, for if he had continued his examination of the southern coast of New Holland, he would have made all the geographical discoveries that fell to the lot of Bass and Flinders a few years later. If that had been the case, a French ""Terre Napoléon"" might well have been a fact).The ships anchored in Recherche Bay on 22 January, and the expedition spent five weeks in that area, watering the ships, refreshing the crews, and carrying out explorations into both natural history and geography. Beautemps-Beaupré, in company with other officers, surveyed the northern extensions to Storm Bay - the western extension was found to be a mouth of a river which received the name Rivière du Nord (it was renamed the Derwent River a few months later by the next visitor to this area).On February 28, d'Entrecasteaux sailed from Van Diemen's Land towards the Friendly Islands, sighting New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands en route. At the Friendly Islands, he found that the natives remembered Cook and Bligh well enough, but knew nothing of La Pérouse. He then sailed back to New Caledonia, where he anchored at Balade. The vain search for La Pérouse then resumed with Santa Cruz, then along the southern coasts of the Solomon Islands, the northern parts of the Louisiade Archipelago, through the Dampier Strait, along the northern coast of New Britain and the southern coast of the Admiralty Islands, and thence north of New Guinea to the Moluccas.By this time, the affairs of the expedition had become almost desperate, largely because the officers were ardent royalists and the crews equally ardent revolutionaries. Kermadec had died of phthisis in Balade harbour, and on 21 July 1793, d'Entrecasteaux himself died of scurvy, off the Hermits.Commands were re-arranged, with Auribeau taking charge of the expedition, with Rossel in Kermadec's place. The new chief took the ships to Surabaya. Here it was learned that a republic had been proclaimed in France, and on February 18, 1794, Auribeau handed his vessels to the Dutch authorities so that the new French Government could not profit by them. Auribeau died a month later, and Rossel sailed from Java in January 1795 on board a Dutch ship, arriving at Table Bay in April 1795. There his ship sailed unexpectedly with the expedition's papers, leaving him behind, but this vessel was captured by the British. Rossel then took passage on a brig-of-war, but this too was captured by the British. After the Peace of Amiens in 1802, all the papers of the expedition were returned to Rossel, who was thus able to publish the present narrative of the whole enterprise. JOST VAN DOCKUM (1753 -1834) was a famous Danish naval officer. He started out as a naval cadet and midshipman in 1765, advanced to second lieutenant 1773, premier lieutenant in 1781, captain lieutenant in 1784 and captain in 1796. In 1798 Dockum became chief of a frigate used as a watch ship in Helsinore and here got caught up in a conflict with an English chief of a convoy, about the extradition of another Danish ship. Due to his steadfast and tactful handling of the situation, the case was resolved and battle was avoided, earning him great respect and a flattering letter from Crown Prince Frederik. In 1799, Dockum was sent out as chief commander of the frigate ""The Mermaid"" to join the Commander Captain Steen Bille's force in the Mediterranean, whose task it was to ensure the uninterrupted travel of Danish merchant ships. Even though Denmark was neutral and thus sought after for shipping goods, these Danish ships still faced problems from both privateers, who didn't necessarily respect the neutral flag, and from English war ships, which demanded the right to search Danish ships - something that the Danish chiefs had explicit orders to prevent. Van Dockum turned out to be exactly the right man at the right place, at the right time. In December 1799, in Gibraltar, he was forced to order firing against English vessels that attempted to search his convoy. For a short while, it even looked as if a heavy battle was forced to follow, but with his calm and assured conduct, Van Dockum made the English reconsider, and the case was handled with diplomacy in stead. Later the same year, a similar situation occurred, which Van Docum handled in the same admirable manner. His impressive conduct was clearly noticed high up in the hierarchy. Denmark, however, could not remain neutral, and in the beginning of 1801, the Danish forces were called back from the Mediterranean. When the English navy arrived in Øresund in 1807 and afterwards bombarded Copenhagen, Van Docken was given command of the battery of ships, Preøvesten. In 1809, he was sent to Schelden to serve in the French navy" upon his arrival, he took command over the line ship Pultusk, under Vice Admiral Édouard Jacques Burgues de Missiessy.Napoleon's plan was to form a naval port of the first rank, a goal that he pursued zealously. The English, of course, tried to conquer the station. It was here that Van Docken gained international fame. At the failed attacks by the English and with his obviously skilled maneuvers and his amazing abilities as an organizer, he gained the special attention of Emperor Napoleon I and earned special recognition for the Danish marine as such. He stayed at his post for more than three years, was appointed French Admiral, Knight of Dannebrog and an officer of the Legion of Honour. He was invited to Napoleon's feasts was showered with attention, when he visited Napoleon in Paris. He stayed in French service until 1812, and Napoleon has presumably given him the present work, when it appeared.
