COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788.
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Mourelle de la Rúa, Francisco Antonio, 1750-1820.
Author (contributor):
Milet-Mureau, L. A. 1756-1825. (Louis Antoine),
Title:
A voyage round the world, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, /
Publisher:
Printed by A Hamilton for GG and J Robinson Paternoster-Row J Edwards Pall-Mall and T Payne Mews-Gate Castle-Street
Begin Publication Date:
1799
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991031867889706966
Permanent Call Number:
2-SIZE E799 .L311vr1
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 09277
Subjects:
Boussole (Frigate)
Subjects:
Imprint 1799.
Subjects:
Astrolabe (Frigate)
Subjects:
Voyages around the world.
Subjects:
Discoveries in geography--French.
Subjects:
Wakashan languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subjects:
Eskimo languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Subjects:
Northwest Coast of North America--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Wakashan languages.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--Eskimo languages.
General Note:
Abridged translation of: Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, first printed Paris, 1797.; Original French edition edited by L.A. Milet de Mureau.; Engraved title page to Atlas reads: Charts and plates to La Pérouse's Voyage, and is dated Novr. 1st 1798.; "Narrative of an interesting voyage of the frigate la Princesa, from Manilla to San Blas, in 1780, 1781", translated from the Spanish of F.A. Mourelle, v. 1, p. 194-241.; "Extract from the account of a voyage made in 1779, by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle ... to explore the western coast of North America": v. 1, p. 242-255.; Includes selections of vocabulary in the Port des Français language, v. 1, p. 409-410, and in the Ecclemach language, v. 1, p. 468-469; these languages would appear to be part of the Wakashan group of languages spoken on the Pacific Northwest coast. There is a selection of vocabulary in the language of the inhabitants of Tchoka island, v. 2, p. 80-85, which is identified as located near the Kamchatka Peninsula.; Pagination: v. 1: [8], lvi, 539, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: viii, 304, *297-*304, 305-312 *305-*312, 313-320, *313-*320, 321-531, [17] p.; Atlas: [4] p., [90] leaves of plates (21 double); Signatures: v. 1: [a]⁴ b-h⁴ B-3Y⁴ 3Z²; v. 2: [A]⁴ B-2Q⁴ *2Q⁴ 2R⁴ *2R⁴ 2S⁴ *2S⁴ 2T-3Z⁴ 4A²; Atlas: pi²; Errata: v. 2: p. [16], 9th count.; Includes index.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary treed calf.