Baldwin & Sons
Auction 101 28 September 2016
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS BY SUBJECT, Exploration, Marine, France, Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), polar explorer, explorer, cartographer and botanist, Monument to his Achievements, Bronze Medal, 1844, by E A Oudiné, head left, rev view of the monument in Paris, MORT SUR LE CHEMIN DE FER DE PARIS A VERSAILLES, 68.5mm (MH 199). Extremely fine, scarce.
d'Urville circumnavigated the globe three times between 1822 and 1840. He surveyed New Zealand and New Guinea and his expedition to Antarctica and Australasia in two ships, the Astrolabe and Zélée, charted much of the north east of the Antarctic Peninsula. d'Urville, his wife and only child were killed in France's first railway accident, at Versailles on 8 May 1842.
Estimate: £250-350
d'Urville circumnavigated the globe three times between 1822 and 1840. He surveyed New Zealand and New Guinea and his expedition to Antarctica and Australasia in two ships, the Astrolabe and Zélée, charted much of the north east of the Antarctic Peninsula. d'Urville, his wife and only child were killed in France's first railway accident, at Versailles on 8 May 1842.
Estimate: £250-350