Australia Described - Douglas Stewart Fine Books

613. ARAGO, Jacques. Promenade autour du monde pendantles annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettesdu Roi l’Uranie et la Physicienne, commandees par M.Freycinet par Js. Arago, dessinateur de l’expedition. Paris: Leblanc, 1822. Two volumes octavo (lacking the atlas),half-bound calf over marbled boards, gilt title, raisedbands, marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate. Ferguson850. A handsome set of the text volumes. $47514. BAJOT, M. [Louis Marin]. Abrégé historique et chronologiquedes principaux voyages de découverte par mer, depuisl’an 2000 avant Jésus-Christ jusqu’au commencementdu XIX.e siecle. Paris : De L’imprimerie Royale, 1829.First edition. Octavo, original lettered wrappers, 156pp,unopened, edges uncut, a crisp unsophisticated copy. Thiswork on historical voyages includes descriptions of Pacificexploration in a section titled Examen sommaire desexpeditions de decouvertes et des progres de la geographiependant le XVIIIe siecle / par le Chevalier De Freminville,where the voyages of La Perouse, Bougainville, Wallis,Fleurieu, Dixon, D’Entrecasteaux, Vancouver et al arediscussed. The three voyages of Cook are treated in detail.Ferguson 2089. Not in Beddie. $85015. [COOK]. Nouvelle bibliothèque des voyages; ou, choixdes voyages les plus intéressants. Paris : Lecointe, 1829.Duodecimo, 29 volumes bound in 16 (out of a total of 58),contemporary tree calf with gilt-decorated spines (somerubbing). A partial set, containing 22 volumes devoted toCook’s three voyages (complete), plus 3 volumes of thevoyages of Anson and single volumes on Wallis, Byron,Magellan and Carteret. Not in Beddie. $360016. SPARKS, Jared. The life of John Ledyard, the Americantraveller ; comprising selections from his journals andcorrespondence. Cambridge [Mass.] : Hilliard and Brown,1829. Second edition. Octavo, half cloth over plain boards,spine with printed title label, 310pp, occasional foxing,mainly to outer pages. Ledyard was a young Americannaval officer with a most interesting story, he met CaptainCook in London, sailed on his last voyage to Australiaand the Pacific islands, witnessed Cook’s death, travelledthrough Asia and Russia (with the support of Joseph Banksand Thomas Jefferson), and then through Africa until hisuntimely death in 1789. Forbes 739. $40017. MUDIE, Robert. The picture of Australia : exhibiting NewHolland, Van Diemen’s Land, and all the settlements, fromthe first at Sydney to the last at the Swan River. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1829. Octavo, quarter calfover marbled boards (spine and corners rubbed), 370pp,folding map frontispiece. Ferguson 1282. $450