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 subesquently 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.
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3130676
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ([2], ix, [11], cciv, 269, [1], [4] leaves of plates ; [2], 613, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates) :ill.; 33cm. Imperfect: wants Atlas (probably the unbound atlas shelved in the Gardner Wilkinson library). Provenance: Nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half green leather on marbled paper over boards, half blind fillet. Gilt tooling and lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) R. Brown (1773-1858) William Westall (Hertford 1781 - St John’s Wood 1850) John Pye (b.1745) William Finden (London 1787 - London 1852) John Scott (Newcastle 1774 - Chelsea 1827)