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Nouveau Voyage à la Mer du Sud…
Paris: Barrois l'aîné, 1783.
Octavo, with seven plates (including two maps, one folding); contemporary French marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands, leather label.
Tasmania and New Zealand, and the first printed account of Surville's voyage

Panoramic View of King George's Sound…
London: J. Cross, 1834.
Folding panorama, 180 x 2745 mm.; handcoloured etching and aquatint, captioned with title and "London Pubd. as the Act Directs Octr. 1834, by Robt Havell, 77 Oxford Street"
The first settlement of Western Australia

Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
Bound in five volumes; a handsome set of the complete official edition, including the two-volume quarto narrative text with portrait frontispiece and two folding tables, the two-parts of the large quarto atlas bound as a single volume containing 40 plates (23 coloured and two...

A General Plan for laying out Towns and Townships…
London: n.d., but, 1794.
Octavo, large folding plate of plans with early handcolouring in red; bound in original heavy pink card wrappers, a bit faded, with early manuscript title to front.
Laying out the settlements

Narrative of the Expedition of the Australian Squadron to the south-east coast of New Guinea…
Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885.
Large square folio, with a folding map, three coloured lithograph plates, 33 original silver albumen photographs (283 x 212 mm) mounted on card with printed captions and borders, and two superb panoramas, one of them double-page (240 x 553 mm) and the other on...

Description des plantes… dans le jardin de J.M. Cels…
Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, [Revolutionary Year VIII], 1800-1803.
Folio, 100 engraved plates each with descriptive letterpress sheet; complete with the half-title; a large copy, edges uncut, in contemporary green quarter morocco gilt.
With Australian plants gathered on the d'Entrecasteaux voyage

N. Chevalier's Album of Chromo Lithographs.
Melbourne: C. Troedel, 1865.
Imperial folio; 12 unnumbered chromolithographs mounted on stiff white sheets, with Troedel's blind-stamped mark in the margins and printed captions on the verso of each plate; original cloth portfolio lettered as above on front cover. Melbourne, C. Troedel, [1865].
Pioneering chromlithograpy depicting the wilderness regions of Victoria