A detailed sea chart of the environs of Manawaora in New Zealand

DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore.

Plan du Port Manawa (Baie des Iles, Nouvelle Ze´lande) Leve´ par MM. B¯¯e´rard, De Blois et De Blosseville, Officiers de la Marine. Expe´dition de la Corvette de S.M. la Coquille Commande´e par M.L.I. Duperrey, Capitaine de Frigate (Avril 1824).
Paris: Firmin Didot for Arthus Bertrand, 1827-9. Sheet 560 x 800mm.

A large and detailed seachart of the environs of Manawaora in the Bay of Islands, surveyed by officers of the French expedition led by Louis-Isidore Duperrey. On their voyage around the world the expedition spent two weeks in the bay. The chart was engraved by Ambroise Tardieu and published as plate 20 of 'Voyage autour du Monde, execute´ par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majeste´, la Coquille, pendant les anne´es 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825'.


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