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 3164461
Summary
Bibliographic description
Atlas of 16 charts and 7 plates of Plants only. (Atlas = xviii, [10] leaves of plates : ill., incl. 16 charts (maps) ; 65 cm.) Provenance: shelved in Gardner Wilkinson Library (no bookplate), but probably the missing atlas from the set in the Library. Binding: Nineteenth-century paper boards (worn, boards detached). Printed label on front board: 'Charts, &c. to Captain Flinders's Voyage to Terra Australis'.
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)