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 subesquently 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 /
by Matthew Flinders, commander of the Investigator.
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London :
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, and published by G. and W. Nicol, bookseleers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall,
1814.
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| Notes: | Engravings "painted by W[illiam] Westall" and engraved by John Pye, W[illiam] Finden, J[ohn] Scott, J. Byrne, and W. Woodnoth. List of plates precedes the Introduction in v. 1. Atlas includes 16 nautical charts, two coastal "views," "and ten plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis." Physical description: 2 v. ([2], ix, [11], cciv, 269, [1], [4] leaves of plates ; [2], 613, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates) : [9] ill. (engravings) ; 36 cm. (4to) + atlas (xviii, [10] leaves of plates : ill., incl. 16 charts (maps) ; 65 cm.) more |