Lot #: 48384

Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes. Historique. Atlas Deuxième partie.

Maker / Publisher:		FREYCINET, L.
Place & Date:		Paris, Langlois, 1811
Colored:		Uncolored.
Size:		370 x 275 mm / 14.6 x 10.8 inches
Condition:		Binding in original pink marbled boards with printed label on the spine. Illustrated with 14 maps of which two folding maps : each 720x495mm. Two tears along folds affecting the map of Australia, occasional light spotting. Covers slightly rubbed.

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First edition of the second part of the atlas by Freycinet, part of his important book "Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes".
Illustrated with two folding maps of Australia (with two small tears) and the southeastern part of the continent, called Terre Napoléon. Other maps are full, half, or quarter-page charts. Maps are, in general, very clean, with only very minor spotting.

The second part, established by Freycinet (Paris, 1811) contains 14 maps and plans, including 2 large folding maps of New Holland and Terre Napoléon, of the Bonaparte and Josephine Gulfs, of the Bay of Chiens-Marins (Seadogs), etc.

In 1800, the First Consul ordered a scientific expedition to reconnoiter the coasts of the Southern Lands and the southern coast of Australia (Terre Napoléon). Captain Nicolas Baudin left Le Havre with many scientists on board, among them the naturalist François Péron (1775-1810), Louis Freycinet (1779-1842), and the painter Charles-Alexandre Lesueur.

This scientific voyage, "the apogee of 18th-century voyages", was an undeniable success in natural history: a collection of 2,500 new species was added to the Museum. The navigators explored the southern coast of Australia, which they named "Terre Napoléon". The report of the voyage was started by the naturalist Péron and completed by Freycinet.

List of maps :
1/ Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande.
Freycinet's map of New Holland was the first 'complete' map printed of the Australian coast.
In the bottom left corner are shown the three ships of the Baudin voyage, Géographe, Naturaliste, and Casuarina. The longitude is calculated from Paris. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu, Paris, Place de l'Estrapade No.1.

2/ Carte générale de la Terre Napoléon.
The cartouche on this map features Napoleon himself in the upper right-hand corner and a natural history scene revealing the wonders of this previously un-recorded coastline in the lower left-hand corner, including the La Geographe and La Naturalist sailed during the voyage. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu, Paris, Place de l'Estrapade No.1.

3/ Terre de Diemen
4/ Îles Furneaux and partie de la Côte Orientale de la Terre de Diemen
5/ Îles Hunter, King, Maria and Partie de l’Archipel Bonaparte
6/ Partie de la Terre Napoléon and Îles Joséphine et baie Murat
7/ Golfes Bonaparte et Joséphine
8/ Îles Decrès, de l’Institut
9/ Comté de Cumberland, Îles Jérôme, Berthier
10/ Baie du Géographe, Port du Roi-Georges
11/ Baie Laplace, Îles Forestier, Ports Western et Champagny
12/ Îles Louis-Napoléon et de la Rivière des Cygnes
13/ Baie des Chiens-Marins
14/ Baie de Coupang.

Although Matthew Flinders was the first person to circumnavigate Australia, in Her Majesty’s ship the Investigator between 1801-03, ironically, the French lay claim to publishing the first complete map of the Australian continent. Freycinet’s map was published in France in 1811 three years before Flinders’ own chart and appeared in the official account of the 1801-1804 French voyage to Australia commanded by Nicolas Baudin.

Baudin’s exploits in Australia commenced some seven months before Flinders arrived from Spithead in the Investigator. Rather than head for the uncharted southeast coast, Baudin instead sailed north up the west coast of Australia, occasionally landing at points previously uncharted by the earlier 17th-century Dutch navigators, finally arriving at Timor.

Meanwhile, Flinders had set out from Cape Leeuwin in an easterly direction with the intention of circumnavigating the continent. When Baudin eventually made it to the southern coast of Australia, Flinders had already charted a great deal of the previously uncharted south-eastern coast.
The two parties finally crossed paths at Encounter Bay (east of Adelaide) on 8 April 1802. Baudin had managed to chart only a small 200-mile section of the coast west of Wilson’s Promontory.
Although France was at war with England at this time, Flinders had been promised safe passage back to England. On his return, however, he was imprisoned by the French on Mauritius and held captive there for six and a half years.

Meanwhile, the Baudin expedition had returned to France and the subsequent account of the voyage was published from 1807 onwards by Peron. In 1810, Peron died and Freycinet took over the task of completing the account. In 1811, Freycinet released the second part of the atlas, which contained this general chart of Australia.

Flinders on the other hand, had to wait until 1814 before he could publish his own general Australian map.

Reference: Sabin, 60998. Ferguson, 978 et 523.

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