FLINDERS (Matthew).
Estimation :
100 / 150
Adjudication :
135 €
Description
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 fo 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. In Two Volumes with an Atlas. London, Bulmer, 1814 (reprint : Adelaïde, Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966), 3 vol. in-folio, CCIV-269, 614 p. 10 planches en noir, 18 cartes dépliantes, 10 planches de botanique, toile édit. The first English circumnavigation of Australia : a cornerstone of Pacific exploration. Flinders, who had sailed as a midshipman on Bligh's second voyage, sailed from England on 18 July 1801 on his ship the Investigator, on a full-scale expedition to explore the entire coastline of Australia. During the next two years he surveyed the entire south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Bass Strait, the east coast, and the Gulf of Carpentaria, and he returned to Port Jackson in 1803 having completed the first circumnavigation of Australia.
