Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more RAWAK AND THE PAPUAN ISLANDS (Lots 64-70) Freycinet anchored at Rawak Island off Papua, New Guinea, on 16 December 1818 and spent some time there and at Waigiou. The expedition had already encountered friendly natives from the nearby island of Gebe, exchanging gifts and dining with them on the Uranie, before the islanders rejoined Freycinet in January 1819 on Rawak to bid his expedition farewell.
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)

Ile de Rawak. (8 portraits), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 41, Atlas Historique; Rawak. (8 portraits); Divers caractères de Physionomies (8 portraits), and two proof engravings after Arago, one with pencil annotations, for plate 42, Atlas Historique; Rawak 1819. Divers caractères de Physionomie (8 portraits); Rawak (8 portraits); Rawak. Jeune Malaise venue à Rawak avec le Roi de Guébé; Rawak. 1818. Un lépreux de Waiggiou (with a smaller sketch of the head attached), and a proof engraving after Arago before letters titled in ink 'Iles des Papous: Vaigiou Lèpre ichtiose,' for plate 44, Atlas Historique; and two engraver's pencil and grey wash drawings by A.Chazal ('Cranes de Papous') for plates 1 and 2, Atlas Zoologique

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Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855)
Ile de Rawak. (8 portraits), and a proof engraving after Arago for plate 41, Atlas Historique; Rawak. (8 portraits); Divers caractères de Physionomies (8 portraits), and two proof engravings after Arago, one with pencil annotations, for plate 42, Atlas Historique; Rawak 1819. Divers caractères de Physionomie (8 portraits); Rawak (8 portraits); Rawak. Jeune Malaise venue à Rawak avec le Roi de Guébé; Rawak. 1818. Un lépreux de Waiggiou (with a smaller sketch of the head attached), and a proof engraving after Arago before letters titled in ink 'Iles des Papous: Vaigiou Lèpre ichtiose,' for plate 44, Atlas Historique; and two engraver's pencil and grey wash drawings by A.Chazal ('Cranes de Papous') for plates 1 and 2, Atlas Zoologique
seven signed 'Js Arago'
two watercolour, four pen and ink, five grey and brown wash on paper, one watermark MONTGOLFIER
11 5/16 x 14½in. (28.6 x 36.8cm.) and similar
14
Engraved
Atlas Historique, pls. 41,42 and 44.
Atlas Zoologique, pls. 1 and 2.
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