Voyage autour du monde: fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne

Full title: Voyage autour du monde: fait par ordre du roi sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820: Atlas historique, 1825. Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet (1779 – 1842), Voyage autour du Monde … Atlas Historique, Paris, 1825. It includes 112 engraved maps, plans, views and plates (comprising 12 maps or plans, one double-page, one folding, both of these with routes marked in colour by hand; 100 views, portraits and plates, 41 hand-coloured or printed in colour and finished by hand). Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet was a significant French explorer who, from 1817-1820, commanded his own expedition in the corvettes Uranie and Physicienne to circumnavigate the globe and conduct research into meteorology and terrestrial magnetism. The Atlas Historique accompanied Freycinet’s official account of that voyage. The artwork from Freycinet’s circumnavigation on the Uranie also includes engravings of the places they visited on the voyage based on the original drawings and watercolours by artists Jacques Arago, Adrien Taunay and J. Alphonse Pellion. Freycinet’s circumnavigation took him and his crew to Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mauritius, La Reunion, the West coast of Australia, Timor, the Caroline, Marianne and Sandwich Islands, Port Jackson and around Cape Horn. Shipwrecked off the Falkland Islands, they were rescued and taken to Rio before returning to France in 1820. The Atlas Historique comprises rare and important documents providing a narrative of the French cartographic examination of New South Wales. In particular it contains important maps of New South Wales, the County of Cumberland and the town plan of Sydney, views of Parramatta and Government House Parramatta as well as views of the Blue Mountains and the Indigenous people from this area.