A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere. ... during the years 1801 1802 1803 and 1804. ...

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(Melbourne: Marsh Walsh Publishing 1975). 8vo. Full tooled brown calf with raised spine bands. In original slipcase (shelf-soiled). (316 2pp.). With 2 fold. plates. Lim. ed. of 350 numbered copies. Additional calf title-label in pocket on back endpaper. Light foxing on text-block otherwise a fine and attractive copy. Facsimile reprint of London 1809 edition. NOTE: Nicolas Baudin led the French expedition to chart the unknown southern coast of New Holland. They met Matthew Flinders and the 'Investigator' on 8 April 1802 at Encounter Bay in South Australia. Baudin died in 1803 on the homeward journey to France so it was left to the expedition's naturalist Fran?ois P?ron to publish the account and charts of the voyage.