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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. [2] (of [4]), ix, [11], cciv, 269, [1]; [2] (of [4]), 613 pages; lacking the half-titles. 2 (of 3) volumes, lacking the atlas. 4to, 306x240 mm, modern crude 1/4 turquoise leather with red leather lettering pieces; plates dampstained in lower inner corner and heavily offsetting onto facing pages; largely unopened. 19th-century stamps of John Taylor, Albany, and Cornell Library Association on titles. wide-margined set. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814
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.
