Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes, volume 2

365 x 265 x 60 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 Second.' ("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 two"). The book is the second volume of a five volume account of the 1801-1803 Baudin expedition to Australia. Containing 32 charts showing the large areas of the Australian coastline explored by Nicolas Baudin's expedition between 1801 and 1803, this atlas provides a parallel source of information to Matthew Flinders's 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. This atlas forms part of the complete five volume voyage account.