A voyage to Terra Australis
Subtitle: 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, and subesquently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner : with an account of the shipwreck of the Porpoise, arrival of the Cumberland at Mauritius, and imprisonment of the commander during six years and a half in that island
By: by Matthew Flinders, commander of the Investigator.
Contributors: Brown, R. 1773-1858.; Westall, William, 1781-1850.; Pye, John, b. 1745.; Finden, W. 1787-1852.; Scott, John, 1774-1827.
Publisher: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., Cleveland-Row, and published by G. and W. Nicol, bookseleers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Published: 1814
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 613
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Australia -- Discovery and exploration
Notes: Engravings "painted by W[illiam] Westall" and engraved by John Pye, W[illiam] Finden, J[ohn] Scott, J. Byrne, and W. Woodnoth.
List of plates precedes the Introduction in v. 1.
Atlas includes 16 nautical charts, two coastal "views," "and ten plates of selected plants from different parts of Terra Australis."
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1. Appendix: Account of the observations by which the longitudes of places on the south coast of Terra Australis have been settled (p. 255-269); title: V. 2. Appendix. No. 1. Account of the observations by which the longitudes of places on the east and north coasts of Terra Australis have been settled (p. 498-511); title: No. 2. On the errors of the compass arising from attractions within the ship, and others from the magnetism of the land, with precautions for obviating their effects in marine surveying (p. 512-532); title: No. 3. General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis / Robert Brown ..., naturalist to the voyage (p. 533-591); title: List of plants (p. 592-594); title: Descriptions of plants figured in the atlas (p. 595-613).