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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 #:
  9
• Lot Description:
  Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. Voyage dans les quatre principales iles des mers d’Afrique
  fait par ordre du gouvernement, pendant les années neuf et dix de la Republique (1801 et 1802), avec l’histoire de la traversée du Capitaine Baudin jusqu’au Port-Louis de l’Ile Maurice. Collection de planches. Quarto atlas (only), with 58 maps and plates (some folding or double-page, three handcoloured), half calf of the period (rebacked and recornered), the copy of William Rae of Happy Valley with armorial bookplate. Paris, F. Buisson, 1804.
• Notes:
  First edition of the atlas volume to Bory de Saint-Vincent’s voyage account. Naturalist, cartographer, geographer and geologist, Bory de Saint-Vincent, was appointed chief naturalist to the Baudin voyage to explore the unknown coast of Southern Australia. Bory left the expedition at Mauritius, together with several of his fellow officers, owing to a very French falling out with the captain. Thereafter he visited Réunion and the surrounding islands in the Indian Ocean, illustrating numerous new specimens of flora and fauna in this account of his voyage. See Toussaint, D 181.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 3,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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