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This three volume work on early Australia is Francis Peron, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, and Nicholas Baudin’s Voyage 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. The work was published in Paris in 1807 by L’Imprimerie Imperiale.
This work was one of the most important early explorations of Australia. It details the Baudin-Freycinet expedition. It contains the first complete map of the Australian continent. Baudin was tasked with the voyage by the French government in 1800 employing Peron as the naturalist and Freycinet as the cartographer.
The work comprises three volumes. Two volumes are text only in quarto size. There is one atlas volume in folio size which is two parts bound in one. The work includes text, half-titles, engraved portrait, 3 folding tables to a single sheet, 40 engraved plates (many with original hand-coloring), and 14 maps. The volumes are uniformly bound in quarter modern calf over marbled paper boards. The spin is gilt with black and red Morocco labels.
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