Détroit de Bassilan (Iles Philippines) [sic] [Strait of Basilan] [Passage…]

Description

hand-coloured lithograph. EXTREMELY RARE.

Famous large view and artistic master piece of Basilan Strait, from ‘Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans L’Océanie
…l’Astrolabe…Zélée…:Atlas Pittoresque’, pl. 140; Dumont was a French explorer and naval officer. For thirty-eight months, he explored the South and West Pacific including Southern Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Several seaweeds, plants, and shrubs are named after him, as well as D’Urville Island.