A Voyage to Terra Australis; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. [Volumes I and II, plus ten plates of plants]

Author: FLINDERS, MATTHEW
Title: A Voyage to Terra Australis; Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island. [Volumes I and II, plus ten plates of plants]
Description: London, G. and W. Nicol. 1814, First Ediition. Half-Leather, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, ix, [11], cciv, 269 pages [4 plates]; 613 pages [5 plates]. This set includes the 10 botanical plates by Ferdinand Bauer which are in a custom made Solander box. Original binding, front hinge of volume I is split but front cover is firmly attached. Size of text volumes: 30 cm x 23.5 cm, Solander box: 62cm x 45cm. Good.

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Price: US$ 5000.00 Seller: Tinakori Books
- Book number: 009705

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