EditorialRECIBIMIENTO DEL CONDE DE LA PEROUSE EN LA MISION DEL CARMELO EN LA CALIFORNIA-DIBUJO S XVIII. GASPARD DUCHE DE VANCY (1756-1788). GALAUP JEAN FRANCOIS.
EditorialIn 1785, Louis XVI gives instructions to Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, naval officer and explorer. Towards the end of a world cruise with a staff of scientists, La Perouse and his crew were killed by natives on Vanikoro in the Hebrides.
EditorialMenage as Champanzee in Perouse, John Nixon, ca. 17601818, British, 1801, Etching and aquatint, hand-colored, Sheet: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4in. (14.6 x 9.5cm).
EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. La Perouse Bay where French navigator J. F. Galaup,comte de la Perouse,landed in 1786.
EditorialNative man and woman of the island of Beaupre, New Caledonia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goe...
EditorialMaori man of New Zealand. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Jean Piron in Voyage de La Perouse, 1800.
EditorialVouacece, Fijian chief. Man of the Feejee Islands. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. From an illustration by Jean Piron in Voyage de la Perouse, 1800.
EditorialDouble canoe of New Caledonia. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Jean Piron in Voyage de la Perouse, 1800.
EditorialGirl of New Zealand. Maori girl with feather in her hair and long earrings. Handcoloured stipple engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature, The South Sea Islands, Ackermann, 1824. After an illustration by Jean Piron from Voyage de la Per...
EditorialTagalog people on a boat in front of Puerto de Cavite, Spanish port in Manila Bay, Philippines. Copied from a painting by Duche de Vancy and J.M. Moreau le Jeune in La Perouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient a...
EditorialTagalog people on a boat in front of Puerto de Cavite, Spanish port in Manila Bay, Philippines. Copied from a painting by Duche de Vancy and J.M. Moreau le Jeune in La Perouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraved by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient a...
EditorialCostumes of the people of Concepcion, Chile, with women in shawls, full skirts with many petticoats, copied from La Perouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Luigi Giarre from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costu...
EditorialNative man and woman of the island of Beaupre, New Caledonia. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goe...
EditorialIn 1785, Louis XVI gives instructions to Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse, naval officer and explorer. Towards the end of a world cruise with a staff of scientists, La Perouse and his crew were killed by natives on Vanikoro in the Hebrides.
EditorialTe Pito Kura, " navel of the world" is a ball-shaped, very heavy stone which weighs approximately one ton and has a diameter of one meter. The " navel" was once brought to La Perouse-Bay, the place where J. F. Galaup, comte de La Pe...
EditorialEaster Island, called Rapa Nui by its Polynesian in-habitants, is a volcanic island 3,790 kms west of the Chilean coast. La Perouse Bay where French navigator J. F. Galaup,comte de la Perouse,landed in 1786.