LESSON (René-Primevère). VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE ENTREPRIS PAR ORDRE DU GOUVERNEMENT SUR LA CORVETTE LA COQUILLE. Paris, Pourrat frères, 1838-1839. 2 volumes in-8 of [4]-548 ill Chiff. 547-[2]-2bl.-[2] pages and [4]-508 pages, red half-chagrin with corners, spines lisses orné (contemporary binding). ORIGINAL EDITION decorated with a portrait of the author and 40 hors-texte plates (out of 42) representing views, weapons, types of savages... 19 plates are devoted to natural history and are very finely coloured. Work almost entirely dedicated to Oceania and gives several vocabularies of these islands (Chadenat, 625). Spine lightened, foxing.