LAPEROUSE, Jean Franois de Galaup, comte de (1741-1788). Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde, publi conformment au dcret du 22 Avril 1791, et redig par M.L.A. [i.e. Louis Marie Antoine Destouff, baron de] Milet-Mureau. Paris: Imprimerie de la Republique, an V [1797]. 4 vols. 4o (279 x 203 mm) text, 2o (556 x 423 mm) atlas. Engraved frontispiece portrait in vol. I, half-title in each text vol., atlas with engraved frontispiece and 69 engraved plates and maps, many folding. (Folding world map dampstained and with torn edges reinforced, indelible ink stanps on verso of each plate and twice on image on plate 38.) Contemporary mottled half calf gilt and marbled boards (text vols. with corners and board edges worn, atlas worn) FIRST EDITION. Provenance: Count Nicolas d'Esterhazy (contemporary crowned ink stamp on all five title pages); Szeged Library (indelible ink stamps in atlas). Ferguson 251; Hill, p.173. (5)