Facsimile edition of the 1814 original, No. 37 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (IV), X, (X), CCIV, 269 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Volume II: (IV), 613 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Atlas (in a cloth-covered clam box) with 18 b/w folded plates [charts (plate XV, in 3 folded parts) and coastal views] and 10 b/w folded plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis. This set had been water damaged affecting the covers and only the outer edges of pages. Rebacked copy. Full covers with "Oyster Book Cloth", renewed endpapers, and original labels pasted down on spine. Slight ageing of paper, and old water marks on outside edges of Volumes 1 & 2. Complete. Contents fine and overall, a very good set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 35 x 27.5. A voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner. With an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island. Seller Inventory # 73657

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Title: A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS. (in Two Volumes...

Publisher: Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. .

Publication Date: 1966

Binding: Hardcover

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Maritime specialist bookseller and books on the French-speaking islands of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Regular catalogues issued. Member of ANZAAB and ILAB.

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