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Four Volumes. [4], 400; [4], 420, [4], 399; [4], 451 pp. Half-titles. Additional scientific notes by Dominique Francois Jean Arago. Illustrated with two portrait frontispieces and sixty hand-colored lithographic plates after drawings by the author, by H. Maurin and printed by de Villain. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, period red half-sheep and marbled boards, spines tooled in gilt and blind. Third Edition.

Arago was the artist aboard Louis Freycinet's voyage on the Uranie and the Physicienne. They visited Australia, Hawaii, Tonga, Tierra del Fuego as well as other places in South America and the Caribbean. The plates most often depict native peoples, often in eccentric situations, which made the works very popular. This copy with bindings gilt-lettered "L.H. de S." probably an early Spanish institutional provenance. See Hill, p. 10.