Matthew Flinders Navigator Chartmaker by Flinders Matthew Ingleton Geoffrey (2 results)

Pp. xxiv+468(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 16 plates (including reproductions of 6 natural history subjects by Ferdinand Bauer and 8 views by William Westall), plus 16 black & white plates of Flinders' manuscript charts and of views, portraits and instruments, over 250 black & white text illustrations (many reconstructions by the author), the title page decorative border and text decorations printed in brown, notes & chapter references, appendices, indices; [together with]: Flinders (Matthew) PRIVATE JOURNAL 1803-14. Pp. vi+366, frontispiece map, title page decorated in brown, index. [A facsimile of Flinders' manuscript journal, covering his imprisonment on the Isle de France (Mauritius)]. Both volumes med. 4to; hand bound in qr. brown morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, blue cloth boards with gilt silhouette of Flinders on upper board, and gilt facsimile of his signature on lower board; a.e.g.; within blue cloth slipcase with printed title label; Genesis/Hedley, Guildford, Surrey, 1986. De Luxe Edition, limited to 550 numbered sets signed by the author of Volume I.

Guildford: Kingprint Limited for Genesis Publications in association with Hedley Australia, 1986. Folio (313 x 230mm), 2 volumes. Original tan morocco-backed blue cloth by Hunter and Foulis Limited, spines gilt in compartments, lettered directly in 3, others decorated and ruled gilt, upper boards with gilt profile silhouette of Flinders, lower boards with a facsimile of his signature, royal-blue endpapers, all edges gilt, original dark-blue cloth slipcase, with printed paper title-label on upper panel; pp. I; [i]-xxiv, 1-90, [2 ('Plate Section One' section-title, verso blank)], 91-184, [2 ('Plate Section Two' section-title, verso blank)], 185-278, [2 ('Plate Section Three' section-title, verso blank)], 279-356, [2 ('Plate Section Four' section-title, verso blank)], 357-467, [1 (blank)]; II: [i]-vi, 1-362 (facsimile of Flinders' manuscript journal), 363-366; half-title, limitation page, and titles printed in black and ochre, tailpieces, decorations and initials printed in ochre in the text; vol. I with colour-printed frontispiece after Ingleton, vol. II with map frontispiece, 8 colour-printed plates with illustrations recto-and-verso after Bauer et al., retaining paper guards, 4 monochrome plates with illustrations recto-and-verso, 4 plates with facsimile charts recto-and-verso, one folding plan of HMS Investigator after Ingleton and one folding chart after Ingleton after Flinders, both with paper guards, numerous charts, illustrations and facsimiles in the text, some full-page; spines lightly rubbed causing some loss of gilt, otherwise a fine set.Edition de luxe, no 383 of 550 sets signed by Ingleton. A comprehensive and authoritative work on Flinders' life and explorations written and edited by the distinguished Australian sailor, hydrographer and maritime historian Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Chapman Ingleton, RAN (1908-1998). The present work -- Ingleton's magnum opus -- was immediately recognised on publication as a major contribution to both Flinders studies and the early history of Australia, and remains a key work in these fields.