AUSTRALIA -- "PORT DU ROI GEORGES (Nouvelle Hollande). Un naturel montre à ses Compagnons les Cadeaux qu'il a reçus à bord de l'Astrolabe". - Added: "BAIE JERVIS (Nouvelle Hollande). Las mains de l'Astrolabe partagent leur pêche avec les Naturels". - (1833). 2 plain lithogr. by L.-A. de Sainson. 265 x 346 mm each. NOTE: Louis-Auguste de Sainson (1800 - 1887) made the drawings of aborigines of King George’s Sound and Jervois Bay after which they were lithographed. On 26 October 1826 Dumont d’Urville in the L’Astrolabe visited King George Sound and then sailed east along the south coast heading to Sydney.

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