FREYCINET (Louis de). Voyage autour du monde, Entrepris par Ordre du Roi,... Exécuté sur les corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1824-1844. - 6 text volumes (of 10) in-4, 291 x 228, 3 atlases in-folio, 488 x 352 and 1 atlas in-plano, 580 x 420. Later gray half cloth with corners, smooth spine, speckled edges for the text volumes and 2 atlases, and green half calf, smooth spine for the navigation and hydrography atlas. First edition of the circumnavigation report by Captain Louis de Freycinet (1779-1842). The voyage, rich in scientific observations (magnetism, botany, ethnography), took the crew from Cape Town to Hawaii, via New Guinea and Sydney. But on February 14, 1820, the Uranie ran aground in the Falkland Islands due to inaccurate charts. Freycinet saved part of the work and, after a two-month wait, bought an American ship, renamed the Physicienne, to return to France. Despite 7 deaths and 38 desertions, the expedition was a scientific success. On his return, Freycinet published his work and became a member of the Académie des Sciences (1825). Rose's diary, published later (1927), offers a complementary and human perspective on this adventure. Published from 1824 to 1844, this account was written by Freycinet and the scientists Jean-René Constant Quoy (1790-1869, surgeon), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793-1858, physician, naturalist and surgeon of the French Navy under sail) and Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789-1854, pharmacist and traveler). This copy includes the following volumes: - QUOY (Jean-René-Constant) - GAIMARD (Joseph Paul). Zoologie. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1824. - (4 ff.), 712 pp. - GAUDICHAUD-BEAUPRÉ (Charles). Botanique. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1826. - vij, 522 pp. - FREYCINET (Louis de). Navigation et Hydrographie. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1826. - 2 vols, (3 ff.), 378 pp; (2 ff.), pp. (379)-733, 3 plates. - FREYCINET (Louis de). Historique. Tome premier - deuxième partie -Tome deuxième - première partie. Paris: Pillet, 1828-1829. - 2 volumes (of 4), (2 ff.), pp. (343)-734; (2 ff.), 612 pp. [Lacking volume 1 first part and volume 2 second part]. The volumes devoted to Recherches sur les langues, Observations du Pendule, Magnetisme terrestre and Météorologie are missing. The atlases are composed as follows: - Histoire naturelle, zoologie. Paris: Imprimerie Langlois, 1824: title, 15 pp. 84 plates out of 96, mostly in color (plates 6, 7, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31 and 35 are missing). - Atlas historique. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1825: title, 98 of 112 plates (plates 28, 70, 91, 92, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107,109, 111 and 112 are missing). - Natural history. Botany (1826): title, 22 pp. 120 black plates (complete). - Navigation and hydrography. Paris: Pillet aîné, 1826 (2 ff.), 22 maps (complete). In all, the atlases here comprise 324 plates and maps out of the 350 required. Spines of cloth volumes soiled and stained. Some foxing. Atlas Navigation et hydrographie unbound, binding badly damaged, spine covered with sticky cloth at spine, foxing and soiling, tears at edges of several maps.