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Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon (a la Nouvelle Hollande).

redigee d'apres les travaux executes bord de la corvette le Geographe et de la Goelette le Casuarina par M. L. Freycinet, an 1808.

BAUDIN, Nicolas Thomas; Louis Claude de Saulces de FREYCINET; and Charles-Alexandre LESUEUR
[Paris,
Publie par Decret Imperial sous le Ministere de son excellence le vice-amiral comte Decres,
1812].
Double-page engraved chart, pale waterstains.
555 by 810mm (21.75 by 32 inches).
22849

To scale:

notes:

notes:

A chart of the south Australian coastline from Cape Adieu to Wilsons Promontory, showing Baudin's discoveries in 'Le Geographe' and 'Le Casuarina'. Plate no. 10 from 'Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes... : partie navigation et geographie. Atlas par Louis Freycinet' (1812). Decorated with two lovely cartouches designed by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, depicting kangaroos, emus, parrots, and local flora.

The chart is one of the earliest of the coastline aroun...

bibliography:

bibliography:

Hill, 'Pacific', 80; Tooley, 'Australia', 633 (separate issue).

provenance:

provenance:

Provenance
1. Pencilled annotations;
2. Freycinet family archives