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Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1816.
Official account of the Baudin expedition
Two volumes, quarto, and large quarto atlas in two parts containing 41 full-page engravings, many in original handcolouring, and 14 fine charts; the text volumes uncut; a fine set in modern quarter morocco. First edition: the Baudin-Freycinet expedition, one of.....
Price (AUD):
$32,000.00
Ref: #4504309
Louis de Freycinet's corrected proof engraving of plate 95 of his voyage Atlas Historique (of 1826): "Port-Jackson: Vue de l'Eglise de Paramatta [and] Vue de la maison du Gouverneur à Parramatta".
Paris: for final publication in 1826.
Louis de Freycinet checking proof depictions of Parramatta, and a rare image of his wife
Early proof plate before letters and before change in numbering from 94 to 95; manuscript draft captions and attributions in red ink, bold ink note regardng state of the.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4504620
Original pen and ink sketch, captioned "L'Intérieur d'un ménage, à Coupang"...
Timor: during the expedition of the Uranie, 1818.
Beautiful original sketch drawn on the Uranie expedition by Freycinet's official artist
Fine watercolour, the image 198 x 265 mm., on laid paper; pencil note "Mr. Arago" in Freycinet's later hand at bottom left; framed. Fine watercolour depiction of a scene in.....PRICE ON REQUEST
"Wayggiou". Freycinet's corrected proof engraving of plate 44 of his Atlas Historique…
Paris: after 1820 and before final publication in 1826.
Freycinet insisting on ethnographic and scientific detail
Early proof plate before letters and number; manuscript caption and notes, bold ink note with instructions to engraver. Early stage of an important engraving from the official account of Louis de Freycinet's voyage in.....
Price (AUD):
$8,800.00
Ref: #4504614
Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, in the Uranie and Physicienne…
London: Treuttel and Wurtz, 1823.
The artist's account of the Freycinet voyage
Quarto, two parts in one, with a folding map and 25 lithograph plates, contemporary smooth calf, gilt, The first edition in English of this informal narrative of the Uranie voyage, the great French expedition to Australia and the.....
Price (AUD):
$7,650.00
Ref: #3911437
Original drawing "M le curé d'Agana en petit negligé".
Guam: 1819.
A priest of Guam takes his ease during the Freycinet visit
Original ink drawing, 310 x 245 mm., fully signed and dated, framed. Jacques Arago, artist on board Freycinet's Uranie during the French circumnavigation of 1817-20, drew this intimate portrait of the priest in Agana, the capital of.....
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #4504053
![Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… [including as final volume:] Chasses-Drame…....](/pictures/thumb/4504637.jpg?v=1508460963)
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle. Voyage autour du monde… [and, as final volume:] Chasses-Drame…
Paris: Gayet et Lebrun, 1840.
The artist's narrative: the rare coloured edition
Five volumes, octavo, with a portrait and 59 hand-coloured lithographic plates (a few folding) in the first four volumes and 15 uncoloured plates in the fifth volume; handsome contemporary French quarter olive-green calf, spines with raised bands, ornamented.....
Price (AUD):
$17,850.00
Ref: #4504637
Bronze Medal for the Voyage of the Uranie.
Paris: Puymaurin & Andrieu, 1817.
Medal for the departure of Freycinet on the Uranie
Bronze medal, 41 mm, fine. Obverse: profile portrait of Louis XVIII. Reverse: "Hémisphère Austral. Physique Astronomie. La Corvette l'Uranie Mr. Ls. de Freycinet Commandt… S.A.R.M. Le Duc d'Angoulême, Amiral de France…." An excellent bronze example of.....
Price (AUD):
$3,450.00
Ref: #4204892
Louis de Freycinet's corrected proof engraving of plate 82 of his voyage Atlas Historique (of 1826): "Iles Sandwich".
Paris: circa 1825.
Louis de Freycinet's annotated proof engraving of Hawaiian dignitaries
Early black-and-white proof engraving before addition of colour; manuscript colour notes in ink, bold ink note at top referring to an original drawing. Freycinet's annotated proof of Alphonse Pellion's engraved triple-portrait of Hawaiian dignitaries encountered during the visit.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504622