Voyage de decouvertes, a l'ocean Pacifique du Nord, et autour du monde; dans lequel la cote Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique a ete soigneusement reconnue et exactement relevee: ordonne par le roi d'Angleterre, principalement dans la vue constater s'il existe, a travers le continent de l'Ameriqie, un passage pour les vaisseaux, de l'Ocean Pacifique du Nord a l'Ocean Atlantique septentrional; et execute en 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 et 1795. Traduit de l'anglais [by J N. Demeunier and C. Morellet]. Ouvrage enrichi de Figures, avec un grand Atlas

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de la Republique, 1800. First edition in French (first published in English at London, 1798). 4to. 3 volumes: (4), iii-xj, (1), 491; (6), 516; (6), 562 pp. 17 plates and one chart bound in the three text volumes; with the half-titles. Accompanied by an elephant folio atlas, containing 6 plates and 10 double-page charts. Howes V-23: "Most of the three years occupied was spent on the California and Northwest coasts which were now first accurately charted. Of all modern exploring voyages to the pacific those of Cook, La Perouse, and Vancouver were the most important." Sabin 98441. Streeter sale 3497, a long entry, in part: "One of the most important accounts of the exploration of the Pacific Northwest and New Zealand, and valuable source of information about Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands in the last decade of the eighteenth century. Cowan considered the account to be superior to any of its kind and the chief authority on the areas explored in this period ... important features are the engraved views if the mission of San Carlos and the Presidio of Monterey, probably the first published views of California." Hill Collection 1753 (for the first edition). Reese West 21: "Most important of the 18th-century English voyages to the northwest because of its superb cartography." Cf. Zamorano 80, 77, Tweney 89, 78, and Lada-Mocarski 55. Portions of the text browned, persistent foxing, but a very good untrimmed copy. Recently rebound in contemporary style light blue paper boards (employing the original endpapers), printed paper spine labels. (63125) (9857). (Inventory #: 63125)