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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  8
• Lot Description:
  Baudin. Péron, François Auguste, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, Charles Lesueur, and Nicholas Petit
  Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes fait par ordre du Gouvernement, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goèlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; Historique. Redigé par Péron, et continué par M. Louis de Freycinet. Seconde Édition, Revue, Corrigée et Augmentée par M. Louis de Freycinet… Ouvrage enrichi d’un superbe atlas composé de 68 planches, dont 27 coloriées. Tome Premier [– Quatrième]. Four octavo volumes of text, and a quarto atlas with 68 plates (many handcoloured, three double page), bound in half calf and marbled boards of the period, one joint splitting. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1824.
• Notes:
  The extremely scarce and importantly revised second edition of the official Péron-Freycinet account of the Baudin voyage to the Pacific. In the first edition of the official account published between 1807 and 1816, Péron and Freycinet failed to acknowledge the discoveries of Flinders, Grant, or Murray on the south coast, taking all the credit to themselves: “This very scarce second edition was prepared by Freycinet after he returned from his own expedition to the Pacific between 1817 and 1820. It is not generally known that the 1824 second edition of the “Partie Historique” contains some significant changes and additions to the first edition. The maps and charts of the first edition atlas, which bore the nationalistic and ambitious name of Terre Napoléon and included imperial French names for many parts of the coast, were omitted or greatly altered for the second edition atlas. This atlas also includes twenty-five new plates, many of which are coloured. Freycinet’s alterations to the second edition reflect the political reality of the times and finally recognise the just claims of the English navigators, in particular Matthew Flinders, to the discovery of the Australian coast” (Wantrup). Ferguson, 978 and 979; Wantrup, 82.
• Estimate:
  A$18,000 - 26,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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