Peron, Francis, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, and Nicholas BaudinVoyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes Execute par ordre de sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette la Casuarina, pendant les annee 1800, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807; 1816
3 volumes, including 2 text volumes, 4to (292 x 217 mm), and 1 atlas volume (being two parts bound in one), folio (350 x 255 mm). Text: Half-titles, engraved portrait, 3 folding tables on a single sheet; scattered foxing, occasional browning. Atlas: Two engraved titles, 40 engraved plates, many handcolored, and 14 maps; scattered foxing. Uniformly bound in quarter modern calf over marbled paper boards. Spines gilt with black and red morocco labels.
First Edition of an important account of the Baudin-Freycinet expedition. One of the most important early explorations of Australia.
A handsome set of the account of Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia with the first detailed and complete map of the Australian continent. Sent by the French government in 1800, with orders to complete the survey of the coasts of Australia, Baudin employed Peron as a naturalist and Freycinet as cartographer.
They reached Van Diemen's Land early in 1802, carried out surveys and then sailed for Sydney. The expedition spent six months in Sydney and offers a useful account of life in that new town. The expedition then engaged in a complete survey of the southern coast before returning to Mauritius where Baudin died at the end of 1803.
Peron died before publication was complete, and the work was finished by Freycinet. While Matthew Flinders had completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, his imprisonment in Mauritius meant that the Frenchmen were the first in print.
REFERENCES:Ferguson 449, 536; Wantrup 78-79a; Hill 229-230
Peron, Francis, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, and Nicholas BaudinVoyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes Execute par ordre de sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette la Casuarina, pendant les annee 1800, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807; 1816
3 volumes, including 2 text volumes, 4to (292 x 217 mm), and 1 atlas volume (being two parts bound in one), folio (350 x 255 mm). Text: Half-titles, engraved portrait, 3 folding tables on a single sheet; scattered foxing, occasional browning. Atlas: Two engraved titles, 40 engraved plates, many handcolored, and 14 maps; scattered foxing. Uniformly bound in quarter modern calf over marbled paper boards. Spines gilt with black and red morocco labels.
First Edition of an important account of the Baudin-Freycinet expedition. One of the most important early explorations of Australia.
A handsome set of the account of Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia with the first detailed and complete map of the Australian continent. Sent by the French government in 1800, with orders to complete the survey of the coasts of Australia, Baudin employed Peron as a naturalist and Freycinet as cartographer.
They reached Van Diemen's Land early in 1802, carried out surveys and then sailed for Sydney. The expedition spent six months in Sydney and offers a useful account of life in that new town. The expedition then engaged in a complete survey of the southern coast before returning to Mauritius where Baudin died at the end of 1803.
Peron died before publication was complete, and the work was finished by Freycinet. While Matthew Flinders had completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, his imprisonment in Mauritius meant that the Frenchmen were the first in print.
REFERENCES:Ferguson 449, 536; Wantrup 78-79a; Hill 229-230
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