Sydney antique print. Phare de Port Jackson. Riviere de Parramatta. Antique Print c1835.

$145.00

Antique Print of The Lighthouse at Port Jackson & the Water-Windmill on the southern bank of the Parramatta River in 1820 (long after steam windmills had been introduced).

Original antique engravings for Voyages Pittoresque Autour de Monde  (Picturesque Voyages around the World) which was a summary of the voyages of the discoveries of Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G. Bligh, Vancouver, D'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders, Krunsenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, D'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace, B.Morrel, etc., published in Paris during 1834 and 1835, under the direction of Dumont d'Urville.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), was a French naval officer who captained a vessel and explored the south-west Pacific regions at the beginning of the nineteenth century. D'Urville combined engravings from the drawings by his official expedition artist Louis Auguste de Sainson (1801-1887), with sketches and engravings from previous voyages (notably those from Captain Cook's third voyage between 1776 and 1780).

Most of the engravings were printed two per page, one above the other, but a few, on their sides, occupied the whole page. These engravings have fine later hand-colour and the page measures 265 x 175mm (approximately 10.5 x 7 inches).