Title Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes : execute par ordre de sa Majeste, l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste et la Goelette le Casuarina, pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804; publie par decret imperial, ... / et redige par M. F. Peron ... .

Published Paris : De l'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807-1817

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
ADPML SPC	919.4042 Peron Per/Vdd	1	LIB USE ONLY
ADPML SPC	919.4042 Peron Per/Vdd	2	LIB USE ONLY
ADPML SPC	919.4042 Peron Per/Vdd	Atlas	LIB USE ONLY

Description 3 volumes : illustrations (some colour), portrait ; 32 cm + atlas (2 volumes ; 36 cm) + atlas accompanying volume [3] (56 cm) Contents Tome 1. Historique. 1807. -- Tome 2. Historique. 1816. -- [Tome 3.] Navigation et geographie. 1815. -- Atlas historique par MM. Leseur et Petit. 1807-1811 (pt. 1, 1807, contains 40 ethnological and zoological plates of Australia, mostly coloured, numbered 2-41. Ferguson entry 449 states "... plate 1 of part 1 being also no. 1 of part 2"; pt. 2, 1811, contains 14 folded maps and plans). -- Atlas, partie navigation et geographique [i.e. accompanying t. [3]]. 1812. Contains 32 charts Notes C.L.D. de Freycinet commanded the expedition to which Peron was naturalist Library's NK889 copy bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1807/7). ANL Port. of F. Peron as frontispiece to vol. 1 Tome 1, Historique, written by Peron. Tome 2, Historique, partly written by Peron but completed by Freycinet. Navigation et geographie [vol. 3] written by Freycinet Selected images available online from MRB/ F18 Atlas [1807] at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE3743533 ; Selected images available online from MRB/ F980/ P Atlas [1807] at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4431977 ; Selected images available online from MRB/ F980/ P Atlas [1811, part 2] at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4431818 ; Selected images available online from MRB/ Q5 Atlas pt. 2 [1811] at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4431760 Library's NK889 copy exhibited: "Mapping our World : Terra incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, Canberra, 7 November 2013 to 10 March 2014 ANL Subject Baudin, Nicolas, 1754-1803 -- Travel. Péron, François, 1775-1810. Casuarina (Ship) Geographe (Ship) Naturaliste (Ship) Fine bindings -- France -- Specimens. Leather bindings (Bookbinding) -- Specimens. Natural history -- Australasia. Australasia -- Discovery and exploration. Australia -- Description and travel. Timor-Leste -- Description and travel. Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration -- French -- Maps. Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration -- French. Author Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842. Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes ... : partie navigation et geographie. Atlas Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846. Petit, Nicolas-Martin, 1777-1804.

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