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Jules DUMONT D'URVILLE & Clément-Adrien VINCENDON-DUMOULIN

Voyage au pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840

Gide, Paris 1841 - 1846, In-8, 10 tomes reliés en 5 volumes.

first edition of Jules Dumont d'Urville's third voyage around the world, completed two years before his tragic death in the first French railway disaster.
The corvettes L'Astrolabe, commanded by Dumont d'Urville, and La Zélée, commanded by Charles Hector Jacquinot, left Toulon September 7, 1837 towards the coast of Antarctica, then drifted to Oceania while exploring the Marquesas Islands , Tahiti, Tonga, New Zealand or Tasmania. Dumont d'Urville then decided to re-route to the South Pole and first landed the Antarctic lands in January 1840. He named Terre Adélie the region he had just discovered, as a tribute to his wife Adèle.
The relation of this voyage, of a considerable scientific contribution, gave rise to a monumental publication begun by Jules Dumont d'Urville and continued by Charles Hector Jacquinot and Clément-Adrien Vincendon-Dumoulin. This collection, "the most encyclopaedic produced by French navigators" (Taillemite), deals with zoology, botany, anthropology and human physiology, mineralogy and geology, philology, physics and hydrography, as well as by the text than by the image since 531 planks and folio cards were made to illustrate this work. The edition was completed in 1854 and included 30 volumes.

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