Péron, François & Freycinet, Louis Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l`Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste et la Goëllette Le Casuarina pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 & 1804. Paris: l`Imprimerie Impériale, 1807-1816. 2 volumes, 4to, [viii (including errata & blank leaf), xv, 496; xxxii, 471], half-titles, engraved portrait, 2 folding tables, some spotting; [with:] Partie historique rédigée par M.F. Péron. Atlas par M.M. Lesuer et Petit. [Paris, undated]. 4to [345 x 252mm.], engraved title and 40 engraved plates [comprising plates 2-41, plate 1 of part 1 being also no. 1 of part 2], 23 coloured, 2 folding, occasional very slight spotting; Atlas. Deuxième partie. Paris, 1811. 4to, engraved title and 14 engraved maps, 2 folding, (small tear at one fold), slight spotting to a few maps; With Freycinet, Louis Voyages de découvertes aux terres australes... Navigation et géographie. Paris: l`Imprimerie royale, 1815. 4to, [xvi, 576, [ii]; [with:] Atlas [Partie navigation et historique]. Folio, (565 x 447mm.), engraved title, 32 engraved charts, 25 double-page; Historique. Atlas, deuxieme partie. Paris, 1811. Folio (580 x 410mm.) Engraved title, 14 engraved charts, 2 double-page, mounted on guards, all contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled boards, Northern Light Board gilt stamp at head of spines, Northern Light Board stamp on verso of titles, bindings slightly rubbed and scraped, atlases worn at head and foot of spine, lower joint to 1st atlas partly split, clean horizontal tear to spine, light spotting to a few charts, intermittent foxing to text volumes (7) Note: First editions. A very attractive set of the complete account of Nicolas Baudin`s expedition to Australia with the first detailed and complete map of the Australian continent. Sent by the French government in 1800, with orders to complete the survey of the coasts of Australia, Baudin employed Péron as a naturalist and Freycinet as cartographer. The expedition reached Van Dieman`s Land in 1802 which they surveyed before sailing for Sydney where they spent six months. The expedition then surveyed the entire southern coast of Australia before returning to Mauritius where Baudin died in late 1803. As Péron died before publication was complete the work was finished by Freycinet. Ferguson 449; 536 and 603; Hill, pp.229-230.
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