Australasia.- Péron (François) and Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, half-titles, engraved portrait after C.A. Lesueur, errata leaf, Atlas with 9 engraved maps or plans, 1 double-page, and 60 engraved plates by N. Petit or C.A. Lesueur on 59 sheets, 2 double-page, 27 hand-coloured, a few partly printed in colours, double-page plates neatly mounted on stubs, 1 with vertical tear expertly repaired, some light foxing and the odd small stain, a few coloured plates slightly browned, uniform 19th century calf-backed marbled boards, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, Atlas with short split to upper joint at foot, [Ferguson 978-79; Nissen ZBI 3120; Wantrup 82], 8vo & 4to, Paris, 1824.

⁂ An attractive set of the scarce revised edition of the account of the expedition to the Pacific, first published in 1807-16, with corrections and 25 plates not found in the first edition. The Atlas includes the first detailed chart of the entire Australian continent, views (including 2 of Sydney, one folding), coastal profiles, artefacts, natural history and ethnographic subjects.