Oceania - Discovery and exploration - French - Early works to 1800

An account of a voyage in search of La P�erouse , undertaken by order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and performed in the years 1791, 1792, and 1793, in the Recherche and Esp�erance, Ships of War, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux. Translated from the French of M. Labillardi�ere, Correspondent of the ci-devant Academy of Sciences, Member of the Society of Natural History of Paris, and-one of the Naturalists attached to the Expedition. In two volumes. Illustrated by Engravings, and a Chart Exhibiting the Track of the Ships. Vol. I.