Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804 de Bonnemains, Jacqueline; Forsyth, Elliott; Smith, Bernard (eds) - 1988

Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia, October 1988. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Upper corners lightly bumped. Jacket lightly rubbed with a single one inch tear to front bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xiii + 347 pages. Over 300 illustrations. Heavy book: extra charges for expedited or international shipping. Captain Nicolas Baudin's early 19th-century voyage of scientific discovery to Australia is a little-known event in French and Australian history. Yet that voyage played an important part in the history of Australian and Pacific colonization, and in the long story of worldwide scientific exploration. Departing Le Havre in 1800, Baudin's expedition comprised two ships--the Naturaliste and the Géographe--and 238 men, including 22 scientists. For most of the next three-and-a half years they travelled along the western and southern coasts of Australia, charting the coastline and… Leer más

Melbourne: Oxford University Press / Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988. Hardcover. VG- (Page margins are tanning lightly; text and plates are generally unaffected.). Blue stamped cloth, blue & illus. dust jacket, maps on flyleaves, 347 pp., 300+ BW & color illus. Further subtitle: With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C.A. Lesueur and N.-M. Petit from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France. "Until recently, the important geographical and scientific investigations carried out by the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by Captain Nicolas Baudin [1754-1803] between 1800 and 1804 has received little attention in either France or Australia. In particular, the significance of the drawings and the gouache and watercolour paintings executed by two young artists of the expedition, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, has hitherto been known only to a small number of specialists.… Leer más

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. First edition. Hardcover. 14'' x 10 1/4''. 347pp. with index. Light wear. With a complete descriptive catalogue of drawings and paintings of Australian subjects by C. A. Lesueur and N. M. Petitfrom the Lesueur Collection. Light wear to book and dustjacket.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis, illustrations (many color), index, [xi], 347p. Original blue cloth. dj. 35cm. Large and rather heavy.

Oxford University Press, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Jacket faded at spine else fine

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Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Humanities First edition - hard cover in dust jacket The full range of rare and beautiful illustrations offer a remarkable series of pictures of Aborigines in their natural habitats, views of early settlement at Port Jackson and drawings of land and sea animals (some now extinct). Lesueur and Petit were the only two artists to complete the voyage. 35 x 25.5cm., pp. 12 (prelim.), 347, decorated end/p., blue cl. boards, silver blocked, b/w & col. plates t/out, biblio., General index, Scientific index, FINE/VG++(very slight loss of gloss to d.j.) ISBN: 019554787x

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Oxford University Press, USA. New. 1988. Hardcover. 019554787X .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 347 pages , 335 illus. (150 in color. ) -- with a bonus offer-- .