252pp, illus. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0908988710 ***Jules Sebastien César Dumont D'Urville (1790-1842), the French navigator 'who made the greatest single contribution to perfecting the map of the Pacific in the nineteenth century', and the first of his countrymen to visit Antarctica - aboard our namesake L'Astrolabe.