MATTHEW FLINDERS - NAVIGATOR AND CHARTMAKER

Flinders, Matthew; Ingleton, Geoffrey C.

Verlag: Genesis Press, Guildford, Surrey, 1986

Beschreibung

Pp. xxiv+468(last blank), coloured frontispiece and 16 plates (including reproductions of 6 natural history subjects by Ferdinand Bauer and 8 views by William Westall), plus 16 black & white plates of Flinders' manuscript charts and of views, portraits and instruments, over 250 black & white text illustrations (many reconstructions by the author), the title page decorative border and text decorations printed in brown, notes & chapter references, appendices, indices; [together with]: Flinders (Matthew) PRIVATE JOURNAL 1803-14. Pp. vi+366, frontispiece map, title page decorated in brown, index. [A facsimile of Flinders' manuscript journal, covering his imprisonment on the Isle de France (Mauritius)]. Both volumes med. 4to; hand bound in qr. brown morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, blue cloth boards with gilt silhouette of Flinders on upper board, and gilt facsimile of his signature on lower board; a.e.g.; within blue cloth slipcase with printed title label; Genesis/Hedley, Guildford, Surrey, 1986. De Luxe Edition, limited to 550 numbered sets signed by the author of Volume I.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 166300

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: MATTHEW FLINDERS - NAVIGATOR AND CHARTMAKER
• Verlag: Genesis Press, Guildford, Surrey
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1986
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Australiana
  • Autograph & Signed Material
  • Biographies & Memoirs