Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens ou Collection des navires et pirogues [...]
PARIS, François-Edmond

Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens ou Collection des navires et pirogues [...]

Paris
Arthus Bertrand
n.d. (1843)
Size : 54 x 38 cm
Condition : B
Reference : 404-1
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Two parts (text and atlas) in one large folio volume; green percaline, gilt title on spine, cold-stamped fillets on boards (spine restored).

Title, (2) ff. Preface, 156 pages - Title, 133 plates numbered 1-132 (one plate 25bis), (1) f. Table of plates.

First edition of this important treatise on the pirogues and boats of the indigenous populations of America, Asia and Oceania, originally published in 13 issues, in sheets and folders.

The illustration includes 133 plates (76 of them lithographed by Sabatier, Lehnert, and Mozin) of ships and dugout canoes built by the inhabitants of Africa, Arabia, Malabar, Coromandel, Ceylon, Bengal, Cochinchina, China, the Philippines, Malaya, New Guinea, New Holland, New Zealand, New Ireland, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Burmese coast, the Gulf of Siam, the archipelagos of the Carolinas, Santa Cruz, Viti, Tonga, Taïti, Po-Motou, Nouka-Hiva, Hawaii, Kamtschatka, the Aleutian Islands and the Loyalty Islands, the north-west coast of America, of South America and finally of Greenland, all drawn and measured by the corvette captain François-Edmond Pâris during the voyages around the world of the Astrolabe, the Favorite and the Artémise.  

PARIS, François-Edmond

"François-Edmond Pâris (1806-1893), considered today as the founder of nautical ethnography, created a profoundly new work in a field that had been little explored until then. As a hydrographic officer on three circumnavigation voyages between 1826 and 1840, he used his free time to study ships, their context of use and their environment. This fieldwork, based on observation, surveys, drawings and the collection of testimonies, led in 1843 to the publication, under the aegis of the Navy, of an abundantly illustrated summary work, the "Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens", known to specialists in nautical ethnology and archaeology throughout the world. After a busy career as a naval officer, he was curator of the Musée de la Marine, then in the Louvre, from 1871 until his death in 1893" (Hélène Tromparent-de Seynes, Chief Curator of the Musée national de la Marine, L'amiral François-Edmond Pâris au musée national de la Marine. Du plan à la maquette dans le fonds amiral Pâris. Note sur les bateaux du monde, p. 28)