Manila folder labelled 'René Lesson'

Containers:

Box 4 (MS Acc22.020)

Component identifier:

File 57

Content Summary:

The folder contains photocopies of Lesson, R. P., 'Observations générales d'Histoire naturelle, faites pendant un Voyage dans les Montagnes-Bleues de la Nouvelle-Galles du Sud', Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris, série 1, vol. 6 [1825], pp. 241–266; Mackaness, G., (ed.) Fourteen Journeys Over the Blue Mountains of New South Wales 1813–1841, part ii, pp. 54–74 (Lesson, Journey Across the Blue Mountains, 1824), with annotations in pencil in Edward Duyker's hand providing a concordance with the pagination in Havard, O., Havard, W. L., 'Some early French visitors to the Blue Mountains and Bathurst', Royal Australian Historical Society Journal and Proceedings, 1938, vol. xxiv, part iv, pp. 245–290 [part ii, Lesson's journal, pp. 260–90] and Lesson, Voyage de Coquille, journal, 1823–4, Hélouis transcript of the original French, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, B1298

Immediate source of acquisition:

This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.

Subjects:

Exploration
History

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