Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands. An Historical Record. Atlas by MM. Lesueur and Petit. Second edition. Translations from the French by Peter Hambly. Introduction by Sarah Thomas...
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2008 [first thus].
Folio, xx [a four-page introduction and translations into English of all French text in the original] pages plus a facsimile reprint of the original atlas, containing 68 plates (including 9 maps and 27 plates in colour).
Quarter leather and blind-pictorial cloth; leather a little mottled on the sides near the spine, and more heavily so on the corner pieces (presumably a problem with the processing of the leather, as we have seen a number of copies like this); internally a fine copy.
Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 223; number 7 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 400 copies).
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