Dupetite Thouars, Abel Aubert. Plan de la Baie des Îles à la Nouvelle-Zélande. Pl. 9. Copper map. Paris, Le Baron de Mackau, 1845. Very rare and beautiful map of the Baie des Îles in New Zealand, which was surveyed and created in 1838 by Louis Urbain Dortet de Tessan, a marine hydrographic engineer, on board the frigate "La Vénus" under the command of du Petit-Thouars, the captain of the ship. It was stung by Collin and comes from the hydrographic atlas "Travel around the world on the frigate 'La Vénus' in the years 1836-1839". – Rolled and with central falz. With cracks, few brown spots and kinky. Very rare.