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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clean pages with no markings in the text. Tanning of the pages due to age. A name in pencil on the top of the front cover. Staple bound. 32 pages.

Condition: Very Good. *Price Has BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Oct. 12 (SALE item)* 32 pp., paperback, light wear to edges, else text and binding clean and tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.…

Small folio,347 pp.,colour plates, textillustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988. Folio, xii, 347 pages with 36 plates and maps (and some 300 plates, many in colour, in the descriptive catalogue). Cloth stamped in silver and blind; covers slightly marked; top edge marked; an excellent copy with the very good dustwrapper (unevenly sunned and lightly rubbed). 'Until recently, the important geographical and scientific investigations carried out by the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by Captain Nicolas Baudin between 1800 and 1804 has received little attention in either France or Australia. In particular, the significance of the drawings and the gouache and watercolour paintings executed by two young artists of the expedition, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, has hitherto been known only to a small number of specialists. 'Baudin in Australian Waters' brings these works to the notice of a wider public for the first time in the form of an illustrated descriptive catalogue of these drawings and paintings of Australian subjects .' (from the dustwrapper blurb). The illustrations include Petit's sympathetic portraits of the Aboriginal people encountered by the expedition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988. Folio, xii, 347 pages with 36 plates and maps (and some 300 plates, many in colour, in the descriptive catalogue). Silver-decorated cloth ruled in blind; covers slightly marked, with the front cover very slightly bowed; an excellent copy with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. 'Until recently, the important geographical and scientific investigations carried out by the French voyage of discovery to the southern lands led by Captain Nicolas Baudin between 1800 and 1804 has received little attention in either France or Australia. In particular, the significance of the drawings and the gouache and watercolour paintings executed by two young artists of the expedition, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Nicolas-Martin Petit, has hitherto been known only to a small number of specialists. 'Baudin in Australian Waters' brings these works to the notice of a wider public for the first time in the form of an illustrated descriptive catalogue of these drawings and paintings of Australian subjects .' (from the dustwrapper blurb). The illustrations include Petit's sympathetic portraits of the Aboriginal people encountered by the expedition. …