Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse *36

Pages of ‘Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse’.

No. 36 – Perdrix, male et female, de la Californie – California Male and Female Partridge Birds.

La Perouse set sail from France in 1785 to continue discoveries of Captain Cook.

He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narratives, maps and views survived and were published in 1797.

73 cm x 54 cm