The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Geographe' and 'Naturaliste'. Translated from the French by Christine Cornell
Adelaide, Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2004 [first thus]/ 1974.
Small quarto, xxii, 609 pages with a few vignettes and 2 maps plus a folding map in an endpocket.
Quarter leather and blind-decorated cloth; a fine copy.
Australiana Facsimile Editions Number 222; the edition was limited to just 300 copies, of which the first 99 were numbered and bound in quarter leather (this copy is number 59). The 1974 edition, essentially by the same publisher, was the first complete edition in English. This new edition comprises a facsimile of the 609 pages of the text of the first edition (albeit reduced in size by 10%); the prefatory pages have been redesigned and contain additional material, including a portrait and a map (although another map has been deleted). The folding map (the famous one of New Holland by Freycinet) is new to this edition. The original receipt and publisher's brochure are loosely inserted.
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