Item #146408 The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste', Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery. Nicolas BAUDIN.
The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste', Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery

The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander-in-Chief of the Corvettes 'Géographe' and 'Naturaliste', Assigned by Order of the Government to a Voyage of Discovery

Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1974 (first complete edition in English).

Quarto, xxii, 609 pages with 2 maps, several tables and a frontispiece illustration.

Gilt-lettered green cloth somewhat flecked; edges slightly marked; endpapers and adjacent leaves lightly tanned; a very good copy.

Translated from the French by Christine Cornell, with a foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. This is the first complete English translation of Baudin's personal journal during the 1800-1804 expedition to the Australian coast, and provides an alternative perspective to the official account by Péron and Freycinet.

Item #146408

Price (AUD): $165.00

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