Australasia.- Australia.- Labillardiere (Jacques Julien Houton de) Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, 2 vol., first English edition, large folding engraved map and 45 plates, advertisement leaf at end, with additional 6pp. publisher's catalogue advertising Chauchard's 'Map of Germany...' and long list of subscribers bound in at end, frontispiece foxed and offset onto title, one plate 'View of Admiralty Islands' water-stained at upper margin, other plates lightly offset but generally a good clean copy uncut in the original boards, rubbed, spine with orange paper label but stained and a little worn and defective, [Ferguson 309; Sabin 38421], 4to, for John Stockdale, 1800.

⁂ Account of the search for the Comte de La Pérouse and his ships which had disappeared in the Solomon Islands in 1788 during their expedition to explore the Pacific and Australasia. The voyage included extensive visits to the coast of Western Australia and Tasmania and contains information on the natives and their customs, implements and languages as well as important early contributions to Australian botany.