Voyage a la terre de Van Diemen, ou, Description historique, géographique, et topographique de cette ile.

[Series : Collection des meilleurs voyages modernes, Tome 40]. Paris : Bureau des Annales des Voyages, 1823. Octavo, contemporary blue paper wrappers, pp. [iv – prospectus for Ternaux-Compans’ Archives des voyages], 187; [2 – catalogue for Librairie de Gide Fils, with an advertisement for this title], folding frontispiece plate with engraving of Hobart by Engelmann, large folding hand coloured map at rear, a very good, crisp copy. Text in French.

First French translation of George Evans’ A geographical, historical, and topographical description of Van Diemen’s Land (London, 1822). The folding map at rear has been re-engraved for this edition and is a fine early map of the colony.

Ferguson 903; Perry and Prescott 1823.02 (map); Tooley, 216 (map)