FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814). 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. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814.
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814). 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. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 3 volumes: comprising 2 volumes text, 4 o (309 x 239 mm) and atlas 2 o (735 x 535 mm). 9 engraved plates by William Westall in text volumes (browning and staining to most plates). Atlas with 16 folding maps including 9 double-page, 2 double-page coastal profiles and 10 botanical plates after Ferdinand Lukas Bauer (some light offsetting to maps). Text volumes bound in contemporary calf (light wear to joints and corners), atlas bound in contemporary boards, upper cover with printed paper label (wear to backstrip). A MONUMENT TO AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION FIRST EDITION, THE ATLAS IN THE LARGER FORM, with the plates unfolded. "Flinders was the first commander to circumnavigate the Australian continent, and the first to give it its present name" (Hill). A Voyage to Terra Australis is a monument to Australian discovery and exploration which Flinders completed in 1814 and received an advance copy of on his deathbed. It covers his nine years of coastal exploration which culminated in the first complete and definitive circumnavigation of the Australian continent through the newly discovered Bass Strait. Flinders' long introduction in vol. I covers the history of voyages of exploration to Australia from the yacht Duyhen in 1605 to Bligh in 1791, as well as his coastal surveying voyages with George Bass in 1795-1797 which determined the existence of Bass Strait (a name recommended by Flinders to Governor Hunter). The major portion of the introduction concerns their eventual first circumnavigation of Tasmania (1798-1799) in the Norfolk . Flinders had first proved himself as navigator and surveyor on Bligh's second "Breadfruit Voyage" when he charted portions of the Tasmanian coast. From 1796 Flinders and Bass carried out a survey from Port Jackson to Sydney in a small sailing boat, Bass surveyed 600 miles of coastline from Port Jackson to Cape Conran in an open whale boat into Bass Strait, and Flinders crossed the strait in the schooner Francis. Returning to England in 1800 where his charts were incorporated into John Arrowsmith's great atlas of the Pacific -- the first to show Bass Strait -- Flinders petitioned the Admiralty to commission this voyage, while Sir Joseph Banks proposed that Flinders should be its commander. James Grant in the Lady Nelson led an advance expedition in 1800 and Flinders followed in 1801 in the Investigator. Sailing with him were the young John Franklin and the landscape artist William Westall and the natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer The charts Flinders produced on this voyage were so accurate that they were re-issued by the Admiralty for many decades and form the basis for many modern charts of the Australian coastline. Appended are Longitude tables and notes on compass variation, since Flinders was the first to correct compass errors caused by iron in ships. He also first proposed the name Australia to include both the continent and Tasmania. Returning to England in 1803 in the Cumberland via Mauritius he was imprisoned as a spy there for nearly seven years where he wrote much of this work. Ferguson 576; Hill 614; Ingelton 6487; Kroepelien 438; Nissen BBI 673; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1806; Wantrup 67a. (3)
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814). 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. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814.
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814). 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. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. 3 volumes: comprising 2 volumes text, 4 o (309 x 239 mm) and atlas 2 o (735 x 535 mm). 9 engraved plates by William Westall in text volumes (browning and staining to most plates). Atlas with 16 folding maps including 9 double-page, 2 double-page coastal profiles and 10 botanical plates after Ferdinand Lukas Bauer (some light offsetting to maps). Text volumes bound in contemporary calf (light wear to joints and corners), atlas bound in contemporary boards, upper cover with printed paper label (wear to backstrip). A MONUMENT TO AUSTRALIAN DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION FIRST EDITION, THE ATLAS IN THE LARGER FORM, with the plates unfolded. "Flinders was the first commander to circumnavigate the Australian continent, and the first to give it its present name" (Hill). A Voyage to Terra Australis is a monument to Australian discovery and exploration which Flinders completed in 1814 and received an advance copy of on his deathbed. It covers his nine years of coastal exploration which culminated in the first complete and definitive circumnavigation of the Australian continent through the newly discovered Bass Strait. Flinders' long introduction in vol. I covers the history of voyages of exploration to Australia from the yacht Duyhen in 1605 to Bligh in 1791, as well as his coastal surveying voyages with George Bass in 1795-1797 which determined the existence of Bass Strait (a name recommended by Flinders to Governor Hunter). The major portion of the introduction concerns their eventual first circumnavigation of Tasmania (1798-1799) in the Norfolk . Flinders had first proved himself as navigator and surveyor on Bligh's second "Breadfruit Voyage" when he charted portions of the Tasmanian coast. From 1796 Flinders and Bass carried out a survey from Port Jackson to Sydney in a small sailing boat, Bass surveyed 600 miles of coastline from Port Jackson to Cape Conran in an open whale boat into Bass Strait, and Flinders crossed the strait in the schooner Francis. Returning to England in 1800 where his charts were incorporated into John Arrowsmith's great atlas of the Pacific -- the first to show Bass Strait -- Flinders petitioned the Admiralty to commission this voyage, while Sir Joseph Banks proposed that Flinders should be its commander. James Grant in the Lady Nelson led an advance expedition in 1800 and Flinders followed in 1801 in the Investigator. Sailing with him were the young John Franklin and the landscape artist William Westall and the natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer The charts Flinders produced on this voyage were so accurate that they were re-issued by the Admiralty for many decades and form the basis for many modern charts of the Australian coastline. Appended are Longitude tables and notes on compass variation, since Flinders was the first to correct compass errors caused by iron in ships. He also first proposed the name Australia to include both the continent and Tasmania. Returning to England in 1803 in the Cumberland via Mauritius he was imprisoned as a spy there for nearly seven years where he wrote much of this work. Ferguson 576; Hill 614; Ingelton 6487; Kroepelien 438; Nissen BBI 673; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 1806; Wantrup 67a. (3)
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