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Document Type: Engraved Print
Category: Handicraft, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Tools, Weapons
Place: Ratak Archipelago, Marshall Islands
Online Ref Num: 0195
Call Number: G420 .C55
Author: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828
Book Title: Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan: des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusiers objects d'histoire naturelle; accompagné de descriptions par m. le baron Cuvier, et m. A. de Chamisso, et d'observations sur les crânes humains, par m. le docteur Gall. Par m. Louis Choris, peintre.
Publisher: Paris, Impr. de Firmin Didot
Date: 1822
Notes: Contains music. Text by J.B.B. Eyries. Issued in 22 livraisons, 1821-23. The 21st livraison ("21e et dernière livr.") 1822 was followed by a "22e et dernière livraison," 1823; the latter (2 maps with text) is wanting in some copies. The work is divided into 7 parts, paged separately and published in the following order: I. San Francisco et ses habitants. II. Îles Sandwich. III. Îles Radak. IV. Îles Aléoutiennes. V. Îles Mariannes et Philippines. VI. Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili. VII. Kamtchatka, le golfe de Kotzebue et la terre des Tchouktchis. In the present issue the plates illustrated natural history are colored; there is another issue in which the plates are in black, and a third in which all the plates are colored. The number of plates is given as 110 by Quérard. La France littéraire, Brunet and Graesse. The Catal. général ... du Département de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; the Bibliographie de la France, 105 plates and two maps, the Catalogue of the Brit. mus. (Natural history) 105 plates and three maps. Inscription on flyleaf: a Monsieur Florent delapart de l'auteur. (Scanned from 3 x 5 inch negative.)
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Document Type: Engraved Print
Category: Handicraft, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Tools, Weapons
Place: Ratak Archipelago, Marshall Islands
Online Ref Num: 0195
Call Number: G420 .C55
Author: Choris, Louis, 1795-1828
Book Title: Voyage pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits de sauvages d'Amérique, d'Asie, d'Afrique, et des îles du Grand océan: des paysages, des vues maritimes, et plusiers objects d'histoire naturelle; accompagné de descriptions par m. le baron Cuvier, et m. A. de Chamisso, et d'observations sur les crânes humains, par m. le docteur Gall. Par m. Louis Choris, peintre.
Publisher: Paris, Impr. de Firmin Didot
Date: 1822
Notes: Contains music. Text by J.B.B. Eyries. Issued in 22 livraisons, 1821-23. The 21st livraison ("21e et dernière livr.") 1822 was followed by a "22e et dernière livraison," 1823; the latter (2 maps with text) is wanting in some copies. The work is divided into 7 parts, paged separately and published in the following order: I. San Francisco et ses habitants. II. Îles Sandwich. III. Îles Radak. IV. Îles Aléoutiennes. V. Îles Mariannes et Philippines. VI. Traversée de Cronstadt au Chili. VII. Kamtchatka, le golfe de Kotzebue et la terre des Tchouktchis. In the present issue the plates illustrated natural history are colored; there is another issue in which the plates are in black, and a third in which all the plates are colored. The number of plates is given as 110 by Quérard. La France littéraire, Brunet and Graesse. The Catal. général ... du Département de la marine et des colonies, t. III, p. 217, quotes 103 plates, one portrait and one map; the Bibliographie de la France, 105 plates and two maps, the Catalogue of the Brit. mus. (Natural history) 105 plates and three maps. Inscription on flyleaf: a Monsieur Florent delapart de l'auteur. (Scanned from 3 x 5 inch negative.)
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