[LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)] , [LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)]

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[LOUIS-CLAUDE DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET (1779-1842)]
Carte Hydrographique des Parties connues de la Terre Dressée sur le Projection de Mercator, par C.L. Gressier, Ingénieur Hydrographique de la Marine. Publiée par ordre du roi sous le Ministère de M. le Baron Duperré, Amiral, Pair de France, Secrétaire d'Etat au département de la Marine et des Colonies. Au Dépôt-général de la Marine. Engraved chart of the world, on thick paper [712 x 1016mm.], annotated throughout in pencil black and red ink with manuscript key, at lower left, and manuscript explanation, at upper right (several small tears and some light staining to margins). Provenance: Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet and by descent to his great-great-grand nephew, Claude, Baron de Saulces de Freycinet.

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A fascinating world chart, profusely annotated by Louis de Freycinet with the predominant wind patterns and their maximum intensities, in the equatorial and torrid zones. Freycinet draw up this chart in 1840, some three years after he published his final volume of his 'Voyage autour du Monde'. Obviously still inspired by his earlier explorations, Freycinet was still putting his scientific researches together, even at the age of 61.

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