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Nouvelle Hollande: Baie Des Chiens-Marins. Camp De “L’Uranie” Sur La Presqu’ile Peron [New Holland: Shark Bay. Camp Of The “Uranie” On The Peron Peninsula]

1825. Hand-coloured engraving, artist, engraver, title and number “11” in plate below image, 23.8 x 31.2cm. Trimmed to platemark, minor paper loss, slight foxing and stains to margins.

Text reads “Dessine par Marchais [1763–1859] d’apres A. Pellion [1796–1868]. Grave par Forget.” Held in NGA. Illustrated in Louis de Freycinet’s Voyage Autour du Monde: Entrepris par ordre du roi, execute sur les corvettes de S.M. “l’Uranie” et la “Physicienne,” pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, published from 1824 to 1844. Peron Peninsula is located in Shark Bay about 750km north of Perth, Western Australia. Ref: Wiki.

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Item #CL198-8

Price (AUD): $770.00  other currencies