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Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon.
Paris: Gravé par Tardieu, 1808.
French designs for South Australia.
Engraved chart; 580 x 850 mm. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title "Terre Napoleon".....
Price (AUD):
$8,500.00
Ref: #3912509
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1824.
The rare second edition with expanded suite of plates
Four volumes, octavo, with a frontispiece portrait of Péron; and a folio atlas, containing a large folding map of Australia, seven full-page charts, two fine large folding views (one of Sydney), 27 superb handcoloured engraved plates and.....
Price (AUD):
$38,500.00
Ref: #4505125
Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes…
Paris: Imprimerie Impériale [Royale], 1807/16/07/11; 1815/12.
The full account of the Baudin voyage: superbly hand-coloured
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......
Price (AUD):
$98,500.00
Ref: #3811937
Voyage autour du monde… Navigation et Hydrographie. Atlas…
Paris: chez Pillet aîné, 1826.
Freycinet's superb mapping from the Uranie voyage to Australia and the Pacific
Large folio, with 22 engraved maps (10 of them double-page); contemporary French quarter calf and marbled sides, spine renewed. The handsome hydrographical atlas of Louis de Freycinet's voyage in the Uranie, the last.....
Price (AUD):
$17,500.00
Ref: #4504207
Colonie Anglaise de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud...
Paris: 1822.
Freycinet maps New South Wales
Engraved chart, with inset captioned 'Ile Van-Diemen 1822', 310 x 240 mm (plate size). Intriguing map of New South Wales and Tasmania prepared by Louis de Freycinet for inclusion in the published account of his expedition titled Voyage autour du monde. This is.....
Price (AUD):
$3,000.00
Ref: #4202807
Reflections on New South Wales...
Sydney: Hordern House, 2001.
De luxe edition, limited to twenty-eight copies
Large quarto, 310 x 225 mm, xxxii + 670 pp., with a portrait, twenty maps and illustrations and eight colour plates; original quarter vellum and glazed boards. One of just twenty-eight copies of the special issue on large paper.....
Price (AUD):
$4,250.00
Ref: #4504093