Passeggiata intorno al mondo negli anni 1817 – 18 – 19 – 20 sopra le corvette del Re di Francia l’Urania e la Fisica, comandante dal Sig. Freycinet

Opera del Sig. Arago, disegnatore della spedizione. Milano : dalla dalla tipografia e’fratelli Sonzogno, 1824. Four volumes, bound in two, duodecimo, library cloth with distressed labels various pagination, occasional light foxing, loss to the margins of the first few and final few leaves of the second volume, with paper restoration and letters supplied in manuscript, thirteen finely coloured engraved plates, including scenes from New Holland and three plates from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). A good copy.

Published as a self-contained set as part of the series Raccolta di viaggi dopo quelli di Cook, eseguiti nelle varie parti del mondo, tanto per terra quanto per mare e non pubblicati finora in lingua italiana (roughly translated to Collection of voyages after those of Cook, carried out in various parts of the world, both by land and by sea and not published so far in the Italian language).

The first Italian translation of Arago’s account of the Uranie voyage with Freycinet, ‘A rare edition of the Arago narrative’ (Forbes).

Forbes 573

Not in Ferguson (although the second translation from Torino 1830, first published in 1829, is recorded in the Addenda (Ferguson 1313).

Not located in Australian collections, no copies recorded at auction (Rare Book Hub).

Rare.