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b. 1779 - d. 1841

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    • 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.

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    • 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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