‎FLAMMARION Camille ‎
‎URANIE ‎

‎Flammarion Camille. / Flammarion Camille. Uranie. In Russian (ask us if in doubt‎

‎Flammarion Camille. / Flammarion Camille. Uranie. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Flammarion Camille./ Flammarion Kamil. Uranie. First Edition. Astronomical Novel in French Paris. 1889. 288s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbcb6567b205f51980‎

‎Promenade autour du monde (pendant les années de 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicienne, commandées par M. Freycinet).ATLAS seul‎

‎ 1822 Paris, Béthune & Plon for Leblanc, (1822). atlas vol. in folio. Sans page de titre ni reliure,broche,mouillures en marge,carte abimée,25 lithographies en noir,dans l’etat‎

‎The splendid atlas volume to Jacques Arago’s published account of his voyage to Australia and the Pacific with the Freycinet expedition of 1817-1820.Published in 1822, Arago’s illustrated narrative preceded the official account by two years; and went on to become one of the best-selling voyage books of the nineteenth-century. ‘The text volumes are scarce and the atlas rare’. [Davidson]Arago (1790-1855) was the official artist on Freycinet’s voyage, and is known for the witty and caustic account he later wrote as much as for his fine sketches. Arago was the third of four brothers who excelled in diverse professions, the most notable being his eldest brother François, the scientist and politician. Arago’s undoubted artistic ability attracted the attention of the naval authorities who chose him for the demanding role of draughtsman for the Freycinet expedition. By all accounts a charming, gregarious and eccentric man, these attributes stood him in good stead during the voyage, and are reflected in the sketches he made.The atlas volume is remarkable for its suite of 25 expertly lithographed plates. They include two Australian Aboriginal studies, a landscape in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney Town, Hawaiian scenes and portraits, native rituals of the Pacific and archaic ruins encountered in the Marianas. les dessins de Jacques Arago, écrivain et dessinateur de l'expédition, reproduits en lithographie dans l'Atlas historique et pittoresque édité en 1822 ,Promenade autour du monde pendant les annees 1817 1818 1819 et 1820 sur les corvettes du roi l'Uranie With a lithographed map of the world and 25 lithographed plates in the atlas, 2 concerning Rio de Janeiro, 5 the Sandwich Islands and 3 Australia. Borba de Moraes I, 44; Sabin 1867; Ferguson 850; Hill, p. 9; Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bibliogr. 537-8. ‎

‎Uranie - Edition du Figaro - Collection Guillaume avec des illustrations de Bieber, Gambard et Myrbach (1ere édition, éditon originale)‎

‎C. Marpon et E. Flammarion , Edition du Figaro - Collection Guillaume Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1889 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage à la bradelle, pleine toile en soie illustrée, pièce de titres havane sur le dos, plats de couverture conservés grand In-8 1 vol. - 288 pages‎

‎ 1ere édition, édition originale "Contents, Chapitres : Nicolas Camille Flammarion, né à Montigny-le-Roi (Haute-Marne) le 26 février 1842 et mort à Juvisy-sur-Orge (Essonne) le 3 juin 1925, est un astronome français. Il fut un membre très actif de maintes sociétés savantes et dassociations pour la vulgarisation des sciences positives. Ses découvertes scientifiques lont placé et le maintiennent encore au XXIe siècle au premier rang des vulgarisateurs français, en mettant à la portée du grand public les problèmes de l'astronomie, de latmosphère terrestre et du climat. Il a, par les côtés mystiques et spirites de certaines de ses uvres, ajouté à la notoriété de son nom. (source : Wikipedia). Il est également le fondateur de l'Observatoire privé de Juvisy et de la Société Astronomique de France en 1887 - Uranie est un roman astronomique fantasmagorique publié par Flammarion en 1889, et largement illustré de gravures élégantes. Uranie, où la muse des astronomes. Cet ouvrage, comme d'ailleurs ""La fin du monde"" pourrait être considéré comme un roman de science-fiction ou d'anticipation." reliure élégante en soie, à peine frottée par endroits, intérieur frais et propre, papier à peine jauni qui reste très frais, quelques rousseurs dans les marges sans gravité, les plats de la couverture originale ont été conservés, le relieur à joint un portrait en noir et blanc, de Flammarion au début de l'ouvrage sur un fascicule de 4 pages de l'Illustration, bel exemplaire‎

‎Rapport fait à l'Academie des Sciences, le lundi 23 Avril 1821, sur le Voyage autour du Monde de la Corvette l'Uranie, commandée par M. de Freycinet.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 16, Cahier 4. Pp. 337-445. (The entire issue offered). Rapport: pp. 389-427.‎

‎First printing of the official raport on captain Freycinet's voyage. He sailed from Toulon on 17 September 1817 in L'Uranie with his wife Rose who secreted herself aboard, and who wrote a separate account of the voyage. After refreshing at the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius he landed at Shark Bay on 12 September 1818 where he set up an observatory, thoroughly surveyed the inlets and the coastal districts and removed the plate left by Willem de Vlamingh, which he had found and re-erected in 1801. He then sailed north to Timor. His accounts and description of the landscape and life and customs of that and other islands in the East Indies captivated the attention of people in Europe much more than his Australian reports, and a widespread interest developed in the expedition. Leaving Timor on 27 November he sailed via the Moluccas, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Sandwich Islands and reached Port Jackson on 19 November 1819, the scientists on board adding constantly to their store of information on hydrography, botany, cartography and anthropology. After spending Christmas ashore, they sailed on 26 December and, falling in with the westerlies, set a course for Cape Horn.On 13 February 1820 L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands" the scientific records and notes were saved before the vessel foundered, but 2500 of the 4175 plant specimens were lost. Freycinet returned to France in November 1820 and died on 18 August 1842.‎

‎Rapport fait à l'Academie des Sciences, le lundi 23 Avril 1821, sur le Voyage autour du Monde de la Corvette l'Uranie, commandée par M. de Freycinet.‎

‎(Paris, Crochard, 1821). No wrappers, as extracted. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Par MM. Gay-Lussac et Arago."", tome 16, Cahier 4. Pp. 389-427.‎

‎First printing of the official raport on captain Freycinet's voyage. He sailed from Toulon on 17 September 1817 in L'Uranie with his wife Rose who secreted herself aboard, and who wrote a separate account of the voyage. After refreshing at the Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius he landed at Shark Bay on 12 September 1818 where he set up an observatory, thoroughly surveyed the inlets and the coastal districts and removed the plate left by Willem de Vlamingh, which he had found and re-erected in 1801. He then sailed north to Timor. His accounts and description of the landscape and life and customs of that and other islands in the East Indies captivated the attention of people in Europe much more than his Australian reports, and a widespread interest developed in the expedition. Leaving Timor on 27 November he sailed via the Moluccas, the Carolines, the Marianas, and the Sandwich Islands and reached Port Jackson on 19 November 1819, the scientists on board adding constantly to their store of information on hydrography, botany, cartography and anthropology. After spending Christmas ashore, they sailed on 26 December and, falling in with the westerlies, set a course for Cape Horn.On 13 February 1820 L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands" the scientific records and notes were saved before the vessel foundered, but 2500 of the 4175 plant specimens were lost. Freycinet returned to France in November 1820 and died on 18 August 1842.‎