BAUDIN, Nicolas.

The Journal of Post Captain Nicolas Baudin, Commander in Chief of the Corvettes Geographe and Naturaliste, assigned by order of the government to a voyage of discovery.

Friends of the State Library of South Australia Adelaide 2004 Translated from the French by Christine Cornell. Foreword by Jean-Paul Faivre. [Australiana Facsimile Editions no 222.] 201 copies thus (another 99 are numbered and bound in quarter leather). Small 4to. xxii, 610pp, small portrait on half-title, illus title-page, 2 full-page maps and folding chart in rear pocket. Blue linen, decorated in blind on the boards and gilt on the spine (issued without dustwrapper). Fine (new). ISBN 187615442X ***A facsimile of the first publication of the journal (1974), but reduced in size (from 30cm to 25cm tall). The preliminaries have been re-set and contain some additional material including a vignette portrait, with the map detail of Encounter Bay replaced by one of 'Golfes Bonaparte et Joséphine'. The folding map in the rear pocket (Freycinet's 1808 'Carte Générale de la Nouvelle Hollande') is new to this edition.

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