Drawings by William Westall. Landscape Artist on board HMS 'Investigator' during the Circumnavigation of Australia by Captain Matthew Flinders RN in 1801-1803
London, Royal Commonwealth Society, 1962.
Elephant folio, [viii], 72 pages plus approximately 150 plates (4 in colour) and 2 folding maps (one in an endpocket).
Cloth very lightly marked; a near-fine copy, still in the original packaging (and accordingly without the fading to the spine so often encountered with this title).
The first publication of these important drawings, in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
Item #116422
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