Research Catalog

Title

Reflections on New South Wales, 1788-1839 / Louis de Freycinet ; now translated into English for the first time from the original publication of Freycinet's Voyage autour du monde (Paris, 1824-1844) by Thomas Cullity ... [et al.].

Author

Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842.

Publication

Potts Point, N.S.W. : Hordern House Rare Books, 2001.

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Additional Authors

Cullity, Thomas Brendan.

Description

xxi, 670 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports.; 26 cm.

Uniform Title

Voyage autour du monde. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Voyage autour du monde.

Subject

• Freycinet, Louis Claude Desaulses de, 1779-1842, Journeys
• Uranie (Corvette)
• 1788-1899
• Scientific expeditions > Australia
• Voyages around the world
• Penal colonies > New South Wales > History
• Natural history > New South Wales
• Aboriginal Australians > New South Wales > History > 19th century
• New South Wales > Discovery and exploration
• New South Wales > Description and travel > 1788-1851
• New South Wales > Politics and government > 1788-1851
• Sydney (N.S.W.) > History > 1788-1851
• Sydney (N.S.W.) > Social life and customs > 1788-1851
• Port Jackson (N.S.W.) > Discovery and exploration

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "Freycinet's examination of the history and progress of the colony of New South Wales during the first fifty-two years, based on his visit to Port Jackson as commander of the Uranie in 1819, his earlier visit with the Baudin voyage in 1802, his interviews and subsequent correspondence with the colonists themselves, and his close analysis of the published literature to 1839."
• Edition limited to 300 copies.
• Ill. on lining papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1875567313

OCLC

• 47780363
• SCSB-10979432

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library