A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in his Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner. With an account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.
London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 2 volumes only (of 3, lacking the atlas volume), 4to (312 x 244 mm). Half-titles. 9 engraved plates by John Pye W. Woolnoth, S. Middiman and others after William Westall Recent half claf over marbled paper-covered boards, spines gilt. Condition : margins of half-titles taped, half-title to vol.II misbound at the front of vol.I, browning and staining to most plates and adjacent text leaves, small marginal tears to Uu3 in vol.I and 3E2 in vol.II, lacking final ?blank in vol.I, occasioanl light marginal soiling. large uncut copy of the first edition of the text of the official account of the first circumnavigation of australia: "the most outstanding book on the coastal exploration of australia" (Wantrup p.144). Flinders sailed from England on 18 July 1801, and during the next two years he surveyed the entire coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Bass Strait. He returned to Port Jackson in 1803 having completed the first circumnavigation of Australia, thus establishing that it was a continent. The present text offers a day-by-day record of the expedition but also includes a lengthy introduction giving details of earlier South Seas voyages as well as an appendix by the expedition botanist, Robert Brown It appears that Flinders received little formal training in surveying, but his achievments on this voyage, working under very difficult circumstances, established him as one of the greatest of all coastal surveyors. His natural ability alied with the great pains he took to insure the accuracy of the printed results have ensured that the present work is of monumental cartographical significance and that it should be "the centerpiece of any collection of books dealing with Australian coastal discovery" (Wantrup, p.144). The two text volumes were originally accompanied by a folio volume of 12 plates and 16 maps. The complete three-volume set was orginally published in both large-paper (150 copies) and normal (1000 copies) issues: the present volumes are uncut (and occasionally unopened) and have generous margins but are from the 'normal' issue. Cf. Clancy 9.5; cf. Davidson pp. 121-3; cf. Ferguson 576 (miscounting the preliminaries in the first volume); cf. Great Flower Books p. 94; cf. Hill (2004) 614; Ingleton 6487; Kroepelien, 438 (text only); cf. Nissen BBI 637; cf. Tooley 570 - 585; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 1806; cf. Wantrup 67a and pp. 138 - 144.
A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in his Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland Schooner. With an account of the Shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.
London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 2 volumes only (of 3, lacking the atlas volume), 4to (312 x 244 mm). Half-titles. 9 engraved plates by John Pye W. Woolnoth, S. Middiman and others after William Westall Recent half claf over marbled paper-covered boards, spines gilt. Condition : margins of half-titles taped, half-title to vol.II misbound at the front of vol.I, browning and staining to most plates and adjacent text leaves, small marginal tears to Uu3 in vol.I and 3E2 in vol.II, lacking final ?blank in vol.I, occasioanl light marginal soiling. large uncut copy of the first edition of the text of the official account of the first circumnavigation of australia: "the most outstanding book on the coastal exploration of australia" (Wantrup p.144). Flinders sailed from England on 18 July 1801, and during the next two years he surveyed the entire coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Bass Strait. He returned to Port Jackson in 1803 having completed the first circumnavigation of Australia, thus establishing that it was a continent. The present text offers a day-by-day record of the expedition but also includes a lengthy introduction giving details of earlier South Seas voyages as well as an appendix by the expedition botanist, Robert Brown It appears that Flinders received little formal training in surveying, but his achievments on this voyage, working under very difficult circumstances, established him as one of the greatest of all coastal surveyors. His natural ability alied with the great pains he took to insure the accuracy of the printed results have ensured that the present work is of monumental cartographical significance and that it should be "the centerpiece of any collection of books dealing with Australian coastal discovery" (Wantrup, p.144). The two text volumes were originally accompanied by a folio volume of 12 plates and 16 maps. The complete three-volume set was orginally published in both large-paper (150 copies) and normal (1000 copies) issues: the present volumes are uncut (and occasionally unopened) and have generous margins but are from the 'normal' issue. Cf. Clancy 9.5; cf. Davidson pp. 121-3; cf. Ferguson 576 (miscounting the preliminaries in the first volume); cf. Great Flower Books p. 94; cf. Hill (2004) 614; Ingleton 6487; Kroepelien, 438 (text only); cf. Nissen BBI 637; cf. Tooley 570 - 585; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 1806; cf. Wantrup 67a and pp. 138 - 144.
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