Pacific voyage of the ASTROLABE 1826-1827

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Album of original drawings and watercolours on 85 pages from the first Pacific voyage under the command of Dumont D’Urville, chiefly by Barthélémy Lauvergne but also Louis-Auguste de Sainson. Lauvergne and Sainson were the official artists of the expedition, which left Toulon on April 1826.

Some of the drawings are the originals used for the engravings in the published atlas of the voyage and, organised chronologically, the album forms a complete account of the entire voyage, including views from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. The album evidently prepared by Charles Hector Jacquinot (1796-1879), d’Urville’s second-in-command on the ASTROLABE who was given the duty of running the observatory of the ship, which shows why several of the illustrations shoe the observatory set up in various different locations. Jacquinot proved a very able officer, decorated with the Cross of Honour for this voyage, and on d’Urville’s second voyage in the late 1830s he commanded the corvette ZELÉE. Mount Jacquinot in Papua New Guinea was named for him by d’Urville, who was said to have been his best friend.

The album was given by Hector’s brother Achille Jacquinot (1798-1865) to Léon Mallieval, his army officer son-in-law with whom he went into business in 1862 as a banker.