CARTE PARTICULIERE DE LA CÔTE DU NORD-OUEST DE L’AMÉRIQUE reconnue par les Frègates Françaises LA BOUSSOLE et L’ASTROLABE en 1786 1.e Feuille.

From the Voyages of La Pérouse who set sail from France in 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He was shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and views survived and were published in 1797. Chart shows very detailed soundings and all known harbours, straits and island chains. It was derived from the dispatches carried by de Lesseps. As it turned out, he was the only member of the expedition to complete the circumnavigation; indeed the only member to survive. La Pérouse and his companions left Petropavlovsk just before the ice set and sailed south. Calling at Samoa, the captain of L’Astrolabe and ten of his men were murdered. La Pérouse sailed on, stopping at Tonga, Norfolk Island, and Port Jackson, the newly established British penal colony in New South Wales, Australia. They left Port Jackson in February 1788 and were never seen again. Thirty-eight years later the scattered remains of La Boussole and L’Astrolabe was discovered wrecked on a vicious reef on an atoll in the New Hebrides.

Good condition. Some browning to a vertical fold and margins, a faint waterstain to a vertical fold and an old repair to the centre fold. Good margins.