Item #114405 Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown. Francois PERON.
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown
Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown

Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Volume I (Books I-III). Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Introduction by Anthony Brown

Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, August 2006 [first thus].

Octavo, lxxxiv, 430 pages with a 'frontispiece, 6 colour plates, 6 illustrations and 2 maps (including a folding map in pocket)' (from the prospectus).

Quarter gilt-decorated calf (with contrasting title-labels) and blind-pictorial cloth; a fine copy.

Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 223; number 71 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 400 copies). 'This new translation by Christine Cornell ... complements her acclaimed translation of Volume II, published by the Friends in 2003 [see below]. The French original was first published in 1807, followed in 1824 by a second edition, from which this translation was made. Previous English translations (both abridged) appeared in England in 1809 and 1812. Volume I covers the voyage out (1800-02), and vividly describes the expedition's discoveries in Western Australia and Tasmania, as well as its visits to Timor and Sydney' (from the publisher's prospectus). OFFERED TOGETHER WITH the matching limited edition of the rarely seen second volume - PERON, Francois and Louis de FREYCINET: Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands by Francois Peron. Continued by Louis de Freycinet. Second edition, 1824. Book IV, comprising Chapters XXII to XXXIV. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Foreword by John Ling. Introduction by Anthony Brown. Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, October 2003 [first edition in English]. Octavo, xxxviii, 278 pages plus 11 plates (9 in colour) and 3 maps (including a large folding map in an endpocket and a double-page folding map, 'La Geographe in Australian Waters', new to this edition). Quarter gilt-decorated calf (with contrasting title-labels) and blind-pictorial cloth; a fine copy; a fine copy. Number 71 of only 99 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 400 copies). 'This is the first appearance in English of Volume II (Book IV) of Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands (Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes) ... Volume I (Books I, II and III) was published in 1807, with an English translation in 1809.... Peron was the zoologist on the Geographe when Baudin met Flinders at Encounter Bay in 1802. Freycinet was the expedition's cartographer. The book ... describes in rich detail discoveries on King Island, Kangaroo Island and the coast of Western Australia as well as visits to Timor and southern Africa' (from the publisher's prospectus). Inexplicably, only 400 copies of this long-awaited first edition were produced for world-wide distribution; needless to say, it was oversubscribed on publication, and it will always be rare. OFFERED TOGETHER WITH the matching limited edition of the atlas: 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, 2008 [first thus]/ 1824. 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 gilt-decorated calf (with contrasting title-labels) and blind-pictorial cloth; bottom corners slightly bumped; leather on the spine, the front bottom corner and the rear top corner mottled, with the spine only slightly so (we have had at least one other copy with a similar problem, so it may be a flaw with some of the skins used); overall, an excellent copy. Number 75 of only 150 copies of the deluxe issue (in a total edition of just 400 copies). [3 items].

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