Apr 11, 2013 - Sale 2309

Sale 2309 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 38,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
FLINDERS, MATTHEW. A Voyage to Terra Australis; undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country . . . in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803. 9 engraved plates. [4], ix, [11], cciv, 269, [1]; [4], 613 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. With atlas containing 16 folding engraved maps, 2 double-page plates of coastal views, and 10 double-page botanical plates, all with 1814 Nicol imprint. Together, 3 volumes. Text volumes 4to, 300x231 mm, in 19th-century marbled boards with 20th-century morocco backs and corners, atlas folio, approximately 493x395 mm, in contemporary 1/2 russia, spine faded, damaged at top, front cover detached; plates in text volumes foxed, mostly in margins, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, vertical crease in Volume 2 half-title and title, atlas contents offset with scattered foxing, maps completely loose. Bookplates of S. M. Barrett and stamps of Lehigh University Library (released) on front pastedowns. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814

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first edition of the account of the coastal surveying expedition to Australia led by Flinders, the first circumnavigation of the continent, including a long historical introduction on Australian exploration. "Next to Cook he must rank as the greatest of Australian explorers by sea; his surveys, often made under great difficulties, have not entirely been replaced"--Baker, pages 418-19. Ferguson 576; Hill 614.