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b. 1779 - d. 1841

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  • Freycinet's Voyage.. Terres Australes - Atlas Volume with 14 Maps
    Mar. 29, 2025

    Freycinet's Voyage.. Terres Australes - Atlas Volume with 14 Maps

    Est: $10,000 - $15,000

    This detailed map is from Louis de Freycinet's Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes. Historique [Atlas. Deuxième Partie]. The work was published in Paris in 1811 by Imprimerie Imperiale. This work was noted for publishing the first detailed and complete map of Australia. Freycinet's atlas was essential to the history of European exploration of Australia. Hill notes Freycinet "entirely ignored the discoveries of British explorers, and depicted the whole of the south coast, from what is now Melbourne to the border of Western Australia, as the 'Terre Napoleon.'" This engraving was completed after the expedition of Nicholas Baudin. It was one of the most important early explorations of Australia. The expedition was sent out by the French government in 1800 with orders to complete the survey of the Australian coast. Commanded by Baudin, the expedition left France in 1800 and sailed via Mauritius to the Australian coast in the region of Cape Leeuwin, arriving in May 1801. Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) served as the cartographer and surveyor for the voyage. The vessels, Geographe and Naturaliste, sailed north from Cape Leeuwin, surveying the coast and making observations on the natural history and inhabitants, until they crossed to Timor. After three months the two ships set out for Tasmania, continued making detailed surveys, and went on to Sydney. The group then undertook a complete survey of the southern coast and an examination of the northern coast before returning to Mauritius. It was a celebrated voyage for France.

    Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books
  • Freycinet, Louis de
    Feb. 05, 2025

    Freycinet, Louis de

    Est: £6,000 - £8,000

    Freycinet, Louis de Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes. Historique [Atlas. Deuxième Partie] Paris: [Imprimerie Imperiale], 1811. Large 4to (31.5 x 26cm), atlas volume, second part, only comprising title, index pages and 14 maps (two of which are folding), marbled calf with gilt foliate borders to covers, spine gilt with black morocco lettering pieces, some minor rubbing to covers, joints a little weak and splitting slightly, a couple of very neatly repaired closed tears to folding maps, some minor foxing, small, light, marginal dampstain to final map, one early ink mark mainly affecting fore-edges De Freycinet’s work is notable for containing the first detailed and complete map of Australia. Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) acted as the cartographer and surveyor for Nicolas Thomas Baudin’s expedition to the Southern and South-Western Coasts of Australia in 1800. Subsequently, he captained the schooner Casuarina around the Australian coastline from 1802-1803, in particular reaching Van Diemen's Land (today’s Tasmania) before heading to Sydney and finally returning to France in 1804. Baudin had passed away in Mauritius in 1803.The first inshore circumnavigation of Australia (at the time New Holland) had been undertaken by the British Royal Navy officer, Matthew Flinders, between 1791 and 1803. It is probable that Flinders would have had the honour of producing the first complete map of Australia had he not been arrested by the French in Mauritius on his return journey. Flinders’s six-year imprisonment offered de Freycinet the opportunity to publish the large folding map of Australia, contained herein, in 1811, three years before Flinders was able to produce his work.De Freycinet’s Atlas is central to the history of European exploration of Australia, showing a clear French claim on the land. Hill points out the De Freycinet: "entirely ignored the discoveries of British explorers, and depicted the whole of the south coast, from what is now Melbourne to the border of Western Australia, as the 'Terre Napoleon'"

    Lyon & Turnbull
  • Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842. Carte De La Nouvelle-Hollande, 1808
    May. 27, 2024

    Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842. Carte De La Nouvelle-Hollande, 1808

    Est: $200 - $400

    Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842. Carte De La Nouvelle-Hollande, 1808, engraving, later impression, crease & tear through centre, foxing across surface, possibly laid down, later frame

    Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
  • Peron's Account of Australia
    Jul. 28, 2018

    Peron's Account of Australia

    Est: $90,000 - $120,000

    PÉRON, Francois (1754-1803) - FREYCINET, Louis (1779-1842). Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi, Sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, et la goëlette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. [with:] Historique: tome Second. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1807 [-1816]; 1811. 2 text volumes: large 4to., (13 4/8 x 9 7/8 inches). Half-titles, engraved title-page with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece portrait of Péron by Lambert after Leseuer in volume II (some light marginal spotting on text leaves, slightly heavier on titles and in second volume). 2 atlas volumes: folio (20 2/8 x 13 1/8 inches and 22 x 15 4/8 inches). 40 engraved plates including 23 printed and finished in colour by Choubard, Cloquet, Dien, Fortier, Houlk, Née, Pillement, and Roger after Lesueur and Petit; 14 maps including two double-page, one of which is the FIRST DETAILED AND COMPLETE MAP OF AUSTRALIA (full-page maps very lightly browned with some marginal spotting). Uniformly bound in contemporary French red straight-grain morocco, the smaller of the two atlases in red morocco backed orange paper boards with marbled paper endleaves, all with matching gilt roll-tooled frames, spines richly gilt, gilt inner dentelles, blue watered-silk doublures and endleaves, all edges gilt (corners of atlas bumped, edges and atlas hinges rubbed, some small scrapes or scuffmarks, bookplates obscured, but MAGNIFICENT). Provenance: from the library of Jacques Levy, his sale, Sotheby's, 20th April 2012, lot 264. A fine and extremely attractive set of the account of Nicolas Thomas Baudin's (1754-1803) expedition to complete the French cartographic survey of Australia, with THE FIRST DETAILED AND COMPLETE MAP OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT, and including superb colour engraved plates of the native peoples and wildlife. Setting sail in October of 1800 Baudin was accompanied by a number of scientists, including the naturalist François Péron, and the cartographer-surveyor Louis Freycinet, who sailed in 'Le Naturaliste'. "Their particular instructions were to make a full and minute examination of the Australian coasts, and especially to explore the southern coast, 'where there is supposed to be a strait communicating with the Gulf of Carpentaria, and which consequently would divide new Holland into two large and almost equal islands.' However, the exploration was a very lethargic affair under Baudin's command, seemingly spending most of the time 'picking up shells and collecting butterflies'" (Hill). The expedition arrived off the coast of Western Australia sighting Cape Leeuwin on 27 May and anchored in Geographe Bay three days later. There they made descriptions of animal and plant life before Baudin in Le Géographe sailed north and, after a cursory examination of the coast as far as Cape Levêque, reached Timor on 21 August hoping to refresh his crew. Le Naturaliste joined them there in September after having explored the coast as far as Shark Bay. Between November and January of 1802 Baudin explored the southern coast of Australia, reaching Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) early in 1802, then sailed for Sydney. There the expedition spent six months giving an important account of early European life in the town. Baudin sent Le Naturaliste to Europe with the results of their voyage so far, then bought from Governor Philip Gidley King the 20-ton schooner Casuarina and put Freycinet in command. After a rendezvous in King George Sound. The Geographe and the Casuarina then proceeded along the west coast of Australia to Timor, and then Baudin sailed on to Mauritius, where he died on 16 September 1803. Freycinet left the Casuarina at Mauritius and reached Lorient on 25 March 1804. Peron too died before publication of the account of their voyage was complete, but not before he had "complained bitterly of Baudin's conduct on the voyage, and in his account does not even so much as mention his commander's name (Hill). So the work was finished by Freycinet, who "entirely ignored the discoveries of British explorers, and depicted the whole of the south coast, from what is now Melbourne to the border of Western Australia, as the 'Terre Naploeon'" (Hill). While Matthew Flinders had completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, his imprisonment in Mauritius meant that the Frenchmen were the first in print. "Baudin's expedition was undoubtedly scientific, not political, in purpose. In addition to gathering much information on the known parts of the Australian coast, the scientists had gathered and partly classified a basic collection of specimens, and their descriptions destroyed William Dampier's myth that Australia's western coast was all barren. Their reports on south-west Australia were sufficiently favourable to bring later French explorers such as Dumont d'Urville in their wake, and to lead the restored Bourbons to consider Western Australia as a site for a French convict colony" (Australian Dictionary of Biography online). Ferguson 449, 536, 603; Wantrup 78 -79a; Hill 1329; "Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, page 205-211.

    Arader Galleries
  • Louis de Freycinet - Voyage autour du monde - fine binding
    Apr. 22, 2017

    Louis de Freycinet - Voyage autour du monde - fine binding

    Est: $500 - $600

    Historique in three volumes. Volume three has the first 56 pages missing and the text begins on page 57. Part 2 is Navigation et hydrographie in two volumes Part 3 Zoologe in one volume. Lacks the atlas / plates volume. A handsome set for your shelf. An important but incomplete set

    Sydney Rare Book Auctions
  • Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) French, after, Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande 1808 Hand coloured engraving by P. A. F. Tardie...
    Apr. 10, 2016

    Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) French, after, Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande 1808 Hand coloured engraving by P. A. F. Tardie...

    Est: $5,000 - $7,000

    Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841) French, after, Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande 1808 Hand coloured engraving by P. A. F. Tardieu, Place de l'Estrapade No.1 49 x 73.5 cm

    Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
  • FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de (1779-1842). Voyage autour du monde. Atlas zoologique [seul]. Paris: Pillet, 1824 [-1826].
    May. 11, 2011

    FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de (1779-1842). Voyage autour du monde. Atlas zoologique [seul]. Paris: Pillet, 1824 [-1826].

    Est: €8,000 - €12,000

    FREYCINET, Louis Claude Desaulses de (1779-1842). Voyage autour du monde. Atlas zoologique [seul]. Paris: Pillet, 1824 [-1826]. In-folio (485 x 325 mm). Titre gravé et tiré en noir, 96 planches gravées dont 77 imprimées en couleur et rehaussées. (Bruni, cote biffée sur le titre, sans texte.) Demi-chagrin noir du XXυe siècle, dos orné de fers spéciaux (reliure légèrement frottée, pied du dos reteinté). L'atlas zoologique complet des planches d'après les dessins d'Arago, Bévalet, Blanchard, Oudart, Prêtre et d'autres artistes. Hormis l'importante section consacrée à l'ornithologie (27 planches), on y trouve aussi des planches représentant des kangourous, des cétacés, des poissons, des mollusques, des crustacés et d'autres espèces. Le voyage de Freycinet fut la plus importante circumnavigation française du XIXυe siècle. Il en rapporta d'inestimables informations sur la faune et flore du monde entier. Nissen ZBI 1425.

    Christie's
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