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 subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and
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 subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and...
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Seller's Description:
Used-Very Good. VG hardbacks. Australiana Facsimile Editions, no.37. Facsimile of 1814 edition. In beige cloth, with title panels on spines in maroon & gilt. 2 volumes of text, + matching box containing charts. All charts & plates present. Presentation bookplate on front free end paper of volume 1, causing slight wrinkling to page, & staining on verso. Spines uniformly faded. This is a very heavy set (about 8kg packed); additional postage may be required.
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VG. 2 vols. Folio. modern burgundy half-leather gilt, marbled boards, blindstamped raised bands, (new endpapers, some toning and marking, contents pages in vol. 1 are brittle with some edge fraying and chipping (no loss to text), else generally clean and neat; lacks atlas volume); pp. [iv (last blank)], x (last blank), x, cciv, 270 (last blank), with frontispiece + 3 plates; [4 (last blank)], 614 (last blank), with frontispiece + 4 plates. Very heavy set (5 kg), additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A very good copy in a new binding, collated and complete with all plates. Ex-libris Charles Scobie (ANARE, Macquarie Island, 1948), with his occasional pencil marginalia.
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Good. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. ix, [11], cciv, 269 pages [4 plates]; 613 pages [5 plates]. This set includes the 10 botanical plates by Ferdinand Bauer which are in a custom made Solander box. Original binding, front hinge of volume I is split but front cover is firmly attached. Size of text volumes: 30 cm x 23.5 cm, Solander box: 62cm x 45cm.
