The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1802
Hobart, Blubber Head Press, 1983.
Quarto, [x], 245 pages with a map and 4 illustrations plus 28 maps and plates (17 in colour).
Gilt-decorated red cloth; a near-fine copy with the good dustwrapper (slightly worn, and with the spine and rear panel torn and split).
Number 691 of 1000 copies signed by the author. 'The emphasis of this book is on the Baudin Expedition and the observations on the Aborigines made by its scientists and naval officers - Baudin himself, Péron the anthropologist/naturalist, the Freycinet brothers (Louis and Henri), Hamelin, Heyrisson, Leschenault and St. Cricq' (from the dustwrapper blurb). Many of the illustrations are after Nicolas-Martin Petit and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.
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