Author: Flinders, Matthew.
Title: Ontdekkings-Reis naar het Groote Zuidland anders Nieuw Holland; bezigtiging van het zelve in 1801, 1802, en 1803; Noodlottige schipbreuk, en gevangenschap van 6 1/2 jaar bij de Franschen op Mauritius. [Volume 2 only].
Description: Haarlem, A. Loosjes, 1815. 346 pp. Copper-engr. view on Port Jackson on title-page. Original speckled marbled publishers boards. - Binding worn (spine mostly), some foxing in the text.* Single volume only (of four) of Matthew Flinder's (very rare) Dutch translation of: A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of that Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, and 1803, in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator. A monumental work in which Flinder's introduced the name: Australia for the continent he circumnavigated.

Keywords: Ethnography Australia Oceania Etnografie Australië Oceanië