Dumont D'Urville—Voyage de la Corvette L'AstroIabe–(1830)

This monumental work was published in four divisions, the first divsion of which comprised five volumes and two folio atlases of 243 lithograph plates including eight charts. In 1950 Olive Wright, then living in New Zealand, translated part of Vol. II from pp. 1–244 together with some passages from officers' diaries and a few pages of Vol. 1 to serve as an introduction.