The Voyage to Terra Australis (Limited Facsimile Edition)

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Limited facsimile edition. Numbered 304 of 500 on limitation page.

The official facsimile of the original 1814 copy held in the State Library of South Australia. Fine bound in half deep-blue calf and cream cloth with gilt lettering to the covers and spines of each volume. Presents beautifully.

Full title: A Voyage to Terra Australis, undertaken for the Purpose of completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the 'Investigator', and subsequently in the Armed Vessel 'Porpoise' and 'Cumberland' Schooner. With an Account of the Shipwreck of the 'Porpoise', Arrival of the 'Cumberland' at Mauritius, and Imprisonment of the Commander during six years and a half in that Island.

Overall condition: near fine. 

3 volumes. Limited facsimile edition (304/500). Adelaide: Government Printer, 1989 (1814). Folio plus elephant folio atlas. Original half deep-blue calf and cream cloth. Pages: vol.I: [vi], xx, cciv, 209. Coloured frontispiece, 4 b/w plates; vol.II: [ii], 613, 5 b/w plates; atlas: [ii], xii plates. 14 charts (9 double-page & 5 single-page), 2 double-page panoramas, 10 single page botanical illustrations.

Provenance: Bookplate of Milton Whitmont pasted to rear of FFEP.

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