Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes, volume 1

360 x 275 x 70 mm A book titled 'Voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes, execute par ordre de Sa Majeste L'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes LE GEOGRAPHE, LE NATURALISTE, et la Goelette LE CASUARINA, pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804: publie par decree Imperial, sous le ministere de M. de Champigny, et redige par M. F. Peron ... Tome Premier' ("Discoveries trip to the Southern Lands, executed by order of His Majesty the Emperor and King, on corvettes THE GEOGRAPHE THE NATURALISTE , and Schooner THE CASUARINA during the years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804 published by decree Imperial, under the ministry of M. de Champigny, and drafted by M.F. Peron ... Volume one"). This atlas forms part of the complete five volume voyage account of the Indigenous people, places and animals encountered by Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1801 and 1803. It provides a parallel source of information to Matthew Flinders' surveys and publications made over the same period. After Baudin's death, responsibility for publishing the results of the expedition fell to Louis de Freycinet and zoologist Francois Peron.