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In the Wake of Exotic Fish

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Published on 21 May 2021, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 11 May 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

A world tour with naval officer Duperrey and other seafarers who wrote travel books.

Louis-Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865), Voyage autour du monde exécuté par ordre du roi,... In the Wake of Exotic Fish

Louis-Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865), Voyage autour du monde exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté "la Coquille"... (Voyage Around the World Carried out by Order of the King, on His Majesty's Corvette La Coquille...), Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826.
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To finish the work he undertook on the Uranie between 1817 and 1820 as a naval hydrographer under Louis de Freycinet's command, Louis-Isidore Duperrey proposed a new scientific…

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WALKING IN THE TRAVELS - Books - Manuscripts - Photographs

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