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Prospectus for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde, to be issued in parts beginning in July, 1826, according to the "Conditions de la souscription" on p. 11

At head of title: "Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Éditeur (Mars 1826.)"

"The work was not completed: the "Histoire du voyage," the "Botanique Phanérogamie" and the "Hydrographie" remain unfinished. Plates 23, 55, 57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 67, 72, 73, 74, 76 to the "Botanique Phanérogamie" were not issued."--British Museum (Nat. Hist.), v. 2, p. 604

"Imprimerie de Firmin Didot"--Colophon

[Introduction] -- Itinéraire -- Histoire du voyage -- Hydrographie et navigation -- Physique -- Zoologie -- Botanique -- Exécution de l'ouvrage -- Ordre de publication -- Conditions de la souscription -- Secondes conditions de la souscription -- Conditions de la souscription pour la partie hydrographique, nautique et physique -- Conditions pour les non-souscripteurs

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SCNHRB copy 39088010926558 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Margaret Schmidt

SCNHRB copy had been previously laid in t. 4 of the Troisième voyage de Cook (Paris, 1785), also a gift of Margaret Schmidt

SCNHRB copy is unbound except for a single stitch through the spine. Housed in a later archival envelope for preservation

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