LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de.- Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, publié conformément au décret du 22 Avril 1791, / et rédigé par M. L. A. Milet-Mureau...- A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de la République an V. 1797.- 4 vols.: il.; 28 cm. + 1 vol. de atlas.- E. Jean-François de Galaup, count of La Pérouse (1741-1788), officer of the French Navy, born in Albi, was chosen by Louis XVI to command the famous expedition around the world, whose objective was to complete the discoveries of Captain James Cook in the Pacific Ocean. The expedition, made up of 220 men and the frigates La Boussole and L'Astrolabe, left Brest on August 1, 1785 but, following a storm off the islands of Vanikoro (Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon's Archipelago, in Melanesia), in July 1788, the two ships sank, losing almost the entire crew. On April 22, 1791, a decree from the French National Assembly ordered the publication of the expedition report, with General Louis Marie de Milet de Mureau (1751-1825) in charge of writing it. Original edition, consisting of four volumes of text and one atlas, with the following collation. Tome premier: [4], LXXII, 346 p.: 1 portrait; Take second: [4], 398, [1, 1 br.] p.; Take troisieme: [4], 422, [1, 1 br.] p.; Take quatrieme: [4], 309, [1 br.] p; [atlas volume]: 1 portrait, 1 engraved allegorical title, 69 engravings and maps. Of the 69 engravings in the atlas, 29 are mostly fold-out maps, some large, with occasional tears in the folds in the larger ones, without lack of support. The rest represent, above all, uses and customs of the people of the Northwest of the South Pacific (Melanesia). Slightly cropped, but very clean volumes of text; engravings and atlas maps equally clean and well folded, uncropped, preserving all the original margins intact. Recent bindings, with patina, ornamental gold border on the covers and smooth spines decorated in gold, the manner of the period. Brunet, III, coll. 828. Sabin, 38960.