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SAINT-AULAIRE, A.
Récréations instructives. Campagne d'un Baleinier autour du monde. Croquis et notes d'un officier du bord. - Instructive recreations. A trip round the world on board of a whale ship. Sketches and notes by one of the officers. Whaling around the world
A gorgeously hand-coloured whaling rarity. The narrative accompanying the plates is based on the experiences of a lieutenant on board the whaleship, AVENTURE, of Le Havre. The beautiful colored lithographic plates depict whaling scenes in the Pacific, the tools of the whaler, and peoples and places visited (including the Cape of Good Hope, Cochin-China, the Philippines, the Moluccas, Sandwich Islands, the Marquesas, Ecuador, and Chile). The Hawaiian illustrations include portraits of three natives of the Sandwich Islands: a male in traditional dress, a male in European clothing, and a female in conventional dress.
- Published
- Paris: Aubert & Cie., (ca. 1845)
- References
- Not in Gumuchian
- Plates
- 19
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Aubert & Cie., (ca. 1845)
- Ref
- 314
4to. Original quarter cloth with green boards, upper board with a gilt-tooled ornamental cartouche with the title 'Campagne d'un baleinier' in centre. Cloth spine and board extremities both rubbed and worn Lithographed title with a picture of a 'common whale,' and 18 numbered plates with 2-5 separate images, all finely coloured by hand, printed by Aubert (1-11) and Lemercier (12-18) after the designs by Saint-Aulaire. Beautifully illustrated children's book of a trip worldwide on a whaling ship. The text is in French and English. The plates depict many scenes of whaling in various parts of the world. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Common Whale. 2. Departure from Le Havre on board the ship. Adventure on 20 February (18??). With views of the vessel in a heavy storm, Tenerife and the Canaries, while the crewmembers are fishing. (4 vignette scenes) 3. View of the Island of Goree with images of the native inhabitants. (4 vignette scenes) 4. (29 April) Cape of Good Hope, native inhabitants, and an ant-eater. (5 vignette scenes) 5-7. Whaling in 7 vignette scenes and in addition the utensils: the harpoons, lances and cutting shovels and carving of the whale alongside the ship and a Fregate bird, an Albatros and a Mauve (seagull). 8. The ship on its journey in the Pacific, where the expedition caught several whales. (2 vignette scenes) 9. Cochinchina with its inhabitants. (5 vignette scenes) 10. Manilla and the Philippines. (4 vignette scenes) 11. Water spouts, a boat with whale hunters launches in the air by a whale, and several Chinese vessels. (5 vignette scenes) 12. The Moluccas, including an attack by pirates. (4 vignette scenes) 13. Three tranquil views of the Island of Vanikoro, including the monument Admiral D'Urville had erected a funeral monument for the memory of La Perouse and his companions. 14. The Sandwich Islands with their native population. (6 vignette scenes) 15. The rescue of some unlucky wrecked people on a raft; and a view of Marquesas with a woman and a warrior: the 'handsomest types of the Polynesian race.' 16. Three views of the Hawaiian Islands. 17. Two views on Equador and a picture of a Lama and a Vigon. 18. Two views on Chile and Patagonia, and a picture of a lama and a condor. 19. Rounding of Cape Horn and arrival back in Le Havre.
