Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

A$50 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 150, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia. Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur Collection at the Museum d Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what what remains of Napoleon s ambition to establish a new scientific empire. Trove

• Binding: Hardcover

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