The later voyages of the Freycinet family

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Carte Generale de Ocean Pacifique

dressée par Mr. C.A. Vincendon-Dumoulin, Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine; publiée sous le Ministère de Mr. Romain-Desfossés, Contre-Admiral, Secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine et des Colonies au Dépôt-général de la Marine en 1851.

VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, Vincendon-Dumoulin, Clement Adrien; J.M. HACQ; and V. CARRE
Paris,
Dépot-général de la Marine,
Juin, 1870.
Revised. Double-page engraved chart.
715 by 1040mm (28.25 by 41 inches).
22896

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Separate issue, with price "Prix Deux Francs", lower right, first published in 1851.

This large-scale chart, centred on the the Pacific Ocean, showing Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, as "Nouvelle-Hollande", and the west coast of North and South America, with lines of magnetic declination, is annotated throughout with the route of an extensive voyage of a scion of the Freycinet family across the Pacific ocean during 1875 and 1876.

The voyage, in ...

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NLA Bib ID: 5664508.

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Provenance
1. near contemporary pencilled annotations plotting an extensive voyage around the Pacific, and referencing distances and other charts in the margins;
2. Freycinet family archives