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441

[Terra Australis] QUAD, Matthias.
Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. MDC. Cologne, Johan Bussemacher, c.1608. Some names highlighted in old colour. 220 x 290mm. An excellent example: a strong impression with wide margins
A close copy of the famous map by Wytfliet: divided into two, the upper section shows the tip of South America, with a strait separating it from Terra Australis; the lower shows the southern hemisphere, the South Pole and the Terra Australis, with promontories reaching towards Africa, Java and New Guinea.

£890

442

[Dampier's Voyage to Australia] DAMPIER, William.
Voyage du Cap.e Dampier, A la N.Hollande &C en 1699 &c. Paris, c.1705. 170 x 280mm.
Dampier, a reformed pirate, published an account of his buccaneering voyages in 1697, gaining himself a better reputation. He used it be get the command of HMS Roebuck on an expedition to explore Australia, which set out in 1699. He anchored in Shark's Bay in July, but was unable to find any fresh water or provisions. With his crew suffering from scurvy he left Australia for Timor, then sailed to New Guinea, finding and naming New Britain, as marked on this map. The low morale and poor condition of his ship made Dampier turn for home, after re-provisioning in Batavia. Having passed the Cape of Good Hope his ship spang a leak, but it managed to reach Ascension Island, where it was beached and abandoned. His crew was stuck on the desolate island until they were picked up by a home-bound fleet. This map comes from a French edition of his "Voyage to New Holland, &C", published in London 1703.

£340

443

MARZOLLA, Benedetto.
Australia Ed Arcipelaghi Dell' Oceania Centrale. Naples, 1857, coloured, 425 x 590mm.
A detailed map of Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and parts of South-East Asia, inset in extensive explanatory notes detailing the history, geography and colonisation of each area shown.

£425

444

[The Pacific, With California as an Island] DE WIT, Frederick.
Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. Amsterdam, Louis Renard, 1715. Original colour. 500 x 550mm.
Sea chart of the Pacific, filled with some of the most famous cartographic misconceptions. California is an island; the northen coastline of Australia is shown, with Tasmania a long way away from any known coastline; the partial coastline of New Zealand is marked; and to the north of Japan are both 'Ezo' and 'Compagnies lant', semi-mythical islands. A highly decorative title cartouche fills the bottom right corner, depicting Neptune in a chariot and a medallion portrait of Magellan. First published in the 'Orbis Maritimus ofte Zee Atlas' in 1675, this example comes from Renard's 'Atlas de la Navigation'. Instead of being just a re-issue of obsolete plates, Renard updated the charts with new information: here the shape of Tasmania has been altered, with the names changed. Koeman concludes 'that the atlas was intended for use at sea and not only for the consultation on shore'. McLAUGHLIN: 188; KOEMAN: Ren 1.

£2,600

445

[South Pacific] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite de la Mer du Sud. Paris, 1753. Coloured. 225 x 375mm. A few tiny worm holes in upper margin.
From the Histoire Générale des Voyages, showing recent discoveries in the South Pacific: Australia's eastern coastline is virtually featureless, running from New Guinea to Tasmania without a break. Only a small section of New Zealand is marked. Published less than twenty years before Captain Cook's famous voyage.

£325

446

[South Pacific] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite de la Mer du Sud. Amsterdam, c.1753. 220 x 365mm.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prèvost's 'Histoire Générale des Voyages', showing recent discoveries in the South Pacific: Australia's eastern coastline is virtually featureless, running from New Guinea to Tasmania without a break. Only a small section of New Zealand is marked.

£320

447

[Oceania] ZATTA, Antonio.
Nuove Scoperte Fatte nel 1765, 67 e 69 nel Mare del Sud. Venice, 1776. Original outline colour. 320 x 420mm.
Oceania, showin the routes of Carteret and Byron, but most importantly the discoveries made by Captain Cook, 1768-71. These include the first circumnavigaion of New Zealand and the mapping of the eastern coast of Australia MCC 12: One Hundred Foreign Maps of Australia, 2, plate II.

£720

448

[Cook's Map of the South Pacific] BÉNARD, Robert.
Carte d'une partie de la Mer du Sud Contenant les Découvertes des Vaisseaux de sa Majesté... Paris, Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, 1774. 365 x 655mm. Binding folds flattened as usual. Wide margins.
A general chart of the South Pacific, engraved by Benard for a French edition of Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', first published 1773. The routes of Byron, Wallis and Carteret are shown, as well as Cook's first voyage.

£650

449

MARZOLLA, Benedetto..
Australia Occidentale Ed Isola Di Van-Diemen.. Naples, 1848, original colour, printed area 435 x 495mm.
An attractive map divided into two sections, one showing Western Australia, the other showing Tasmania. With extensive explanatory texts below concerning the history, geography and colonisation of both areas.

£480

450

[Australia] WYLD, James.
Map of Australia Compiled from the Nautical Surveys made by order of the Admiralty and other authentic documents. London, 1843, original colour, 565 x 810mm.
A large and detailed map of Australia with insets of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) and the World showing the continents. This map shows the patchy coastal settlement that was occuring in Australia at the time, it still has Western Australia named as "New Holland" even though the British formally claimed this territory in 1829. Also marked are the routes of explorers such as Col. Mitchell and various topographical features observed through coastal and interior exploration. The blank unexplored heart of Australia was not to be filled on maps until the second half of the 19th century.

£650

451

[The First Published Chart of Cook's Second Voyage] FORSTER, George.
A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere according to the latest Discoveries with the Tracks of the Resolution, Capn. Cook; and the Adventure, Capn. Furneaux; from 1772 to 1775. London: 1777. 675 x 665mm. Binding folds flattened, with a few small repairs.
The Southern Hemisphere, engraved by Whitchurch, showing Cook's route on his second circumnavigation. George Forster and his father accompanied Cook on the voyage, writing about anthropology. When their texts were refused publication in the official account by the Earl of Sandwich, the Forsters published their own account, containing this map, which was released just six weeks before the official version.

£1,500

452

[Southern Hemisphere] BÉNARD, Robert.
Carte de L'Hemisphere Austral Montrant les Routes des Navigateurs les plus Célebres Par le Captaine Jacques Cook. Paris, Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, c.1780. Coloured. 550 x 550mm. Binding folds flattened as usual on this map.
From a French edition of Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', first published 1773. The Southern Hemisphere, marking the routes of Cook (across the Pacific and around New Zealand & the east coast of Australia), and other explorers.

£450

453

[Spanish Chart of the Pacific] ANTILLON Y MARZO, Isodoro de.
El Grande Oceano... Madrid, 1801. Coloured. 455 x 580mm. Some restoration.

£450

454

[Australia & New Zealand] THOMSON, John & CO.
New Holland and Asiatic Isles. Edinburgh, c.1814. Coloured. 520 x 640mm.

£360

455

BRUÉ, Adrien Hubert.
Carte de L'Australie, (Partie Sud-Ouest de L'Océanie...) Paris, 1826. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 390 x 555mm. With publisher's blind-stamp.
Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, with with insets of New South Wales and the Auckland Isles.

£280

456

VUILLEMIN, Alexandre A.
Nouvelle Carte Illustrée de l'Océanie. Paris, Fatout, 1861. Original colour. Steel engraving, 640 x 850mm.
Large map with vignette scenes and costumes down each side.

£450

457

REINECKE, Johann C.M.
General Charte von Australien... Weimar, 1803. Coloured. 460 x 610mm.
Australasia, extending to Japan and the Sandwich Islands, printed on blue-tinted paper.

£650

458

[Australia] JOHNSTON, A.K.
Australia. London, c.1856. Coloured. Image size 505 x 615mm. Two repaired tears in top border.
Australia, still with most of the Outback left blank.

£250

459

[Australia] TALLIS, John.
Australia. London, J & F. Tallis, c.1851. Coloured. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 330mm.
With a decorative border and five attractive vignettes of parrots & a cockatoo, kangaroos, aborigines and a view of Sydney.

£250

460

[Australia Gore] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[Het Niew Hollandt...] Venice, c.1690. 230 x 290mm, set in text. Faint damp toning in margin.
A gore sheet, designed to be pasted onto a globe, showing the coastline around Arnham land and the Kimberly Plateau in northern Australia. Coronelli has filled his gaps with vignettes including one of an elephant. An important map of Australia.

£1,100

461

[An Early English map of the Continent of Australia] BOWEN, Emanuel.
A Complete Map of the Southern Continent. Survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by Order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt House in Amsterdam. London, 1744. Coloured. 380 x 490mm.
The first printed map of Australia by an Englishman, although copied from Thevenot, published in the second edition of John Harris' 'Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels'. Bowen has added the Tropic of Capricorn and two texts: the upper block emphasises that no assumptions have been made, so white space abounds between New Guinea and Carpentaria, and between the mainland, Tasmania and New Zealand; the lower text starts 'It is impossible to conceive a Country that promises fairer from its situation, than this of Terra Australia; no longer incognita, as this map demonstrates...' CLANCY: map 6.25, illus; PERRY: p.60, plate 69.

£3,800

462

[Australia] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite des Terres Australes. Paris, 1753. 205 x 280mm. Trimmed to printed border, false margin added.
The pre-Cook outline of Australia, with an unbroken coastline from New Guinea to Tasmania. Part of the coastline of New Zealand appears bottom right.

£780

463

[Australia] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite des Terres Australes. Amsterdam, c.1753. 210 x 290mm.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prèvost's 'Histoire Générale des Voyages', showing the pre-Cook outline of Australia, with an unbroken coastline from New Guinea to Tasmania. Part of the coastline of New Zealand appears bottom right.

£800

464

[Rare map of Australia] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
La Nuova Olanda e la Nuova Guinea. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 365 x 490mm.
Australia and New Guinea, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. The emphasis of the map is the charting of Captain Cook down the east coast: most of the marked features are those named by Cook and his crew betwen the Torres Strait and Tasmania, which is shown as part of the mainland. The title is within a decorative title cartouche with two aboriginies, one of whom strangely carries a bow.

£2,800

465

[Separate-Issue Map of Australasia] MONIN, Charles V.
Océanie. Paris: Auguste Logerot, c.1850. Original colour. 490 x 690mm. With mapseller's ink stamp in the top margin, repair to fold.
A large and detailed map of Australasia, with insets of New South Wales and the south west corner of Australia.

£340

466

[Set of Six Maps of Australia] TALLIS, John.
Australia; Part of South Australia; Van Dieman's Island or Tasmania; New South Wales; Victoria, or Port Philip; Western Australia, Swan River. London, c.1851. Original colour. Six steel engravings, ea. c. 260 x 330mm. Each plate with old ink pagination in margin.
Complete set of Tallis's maps of Australia, each decorated with vignettes, including parrots & a cockatoo, kangaroos, aboriginies and views of Sydney, Perth Melbourne & Adelaide. The map of Victoria has the gold fields marked.

£900

467

[Australia] JOHNSTON, A.K.
Australia. Lithographed edition. London, c.1856. Original colour. Image size 505 x 615mm.
A lithographic version of a steel engraving. Printers discovered they could transfer the image of an engraved plate onto a lithographic stone, enabling the preservation of the more expensive plate. For a short period they used the new processes in tandem, and lithographs produced in this way are very hard to tell from the original.

£160

468

[Australia] WEIMAR GEOGRAPHISCHES INSTITUT.
Das Austral-Continent oder Neu Holland. Weimar, 1857. Original colour with additions. 490 x 580mm.
Australia, with insets of New South Wales, Sydney, Melville Island and South Australia.

£250

469

[Cook's Map of New Caledonia] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Le Nuove Ebridi e La Nuova Caledonia Delineate sulle Osservazioni Del Cap. Cook. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 500 x 365mm.
A rare edition of Cook's chart of the islands, published in the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. With a decorative title cartouche and an inset of the Australian Norfolk Island. Prior to Cook's voyage the island of Espirito Santo was often assumed to be the easternmost edge of Australia.

£450

470

[New Zealand] ARROWSMITH, John.
Map of the Colony of New Zealand from Official Documents. James & Luke J. Hansard, London, 1844, original colour, 610 x 495mm.
Showing North and South Islands, especially concentrating on coastal and geographical features. "Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29th July 1844". Densely settled areas are marked in red. With an inset World map in the lower right hand corner.

£650

471

[New Zealand] WELLER, Edward.
Map of the Provinces of Canterbury & Otago. J. Murray, London 1864, original colour, 295 x 350mm.
Published for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society to illustrate the papers of Mr James, Mr Kerrow, Dr J. Haast and Dr Hector. The latter two gentleman's journeys being indicated on the map by a dotted line and heightened with colour.

£160

472

[Cook's Map of the Thames River from a German edition of Cook's account] Anonymous.
Riviere Tamise et Baye Mercure A' La N.le Zelande / Die Themse Nebst Abbildung Der Mercurius Bay In Neu Seeland. German, c.1774. 280 x 435 mm Very fine condition.
Three charts on one sheet, derived from Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere'. This imprint issued in a German edition of Cook's Voyages.

£300

473

[New Zealand, North Island] ARROWSMITH, John.
Map of North Island, New Zealand showing the relative amount of Native and Ceded lands. John Arrowsmith, London 1861, original colour, 560 x 450mm.
Comprising North Island and an inset on the left hand side of the province of Taranaki with parts of Wellington and Auckland. The whole map showing the boundaries between white settlement and native settlement, these being marked out and colour coded.

£380

474

[New Zealand] ZATTA, Antonio.
La Nuova Zelanda trascorsa nel 1769 e 1770 dal Cook comandante dell'Endeavour vascello di S.M. Britannica. Venice, 1778. Original colour. 455 x 36mm. Printed to platemark at top, remargined, repaired tear in sea area.
One of the most decorative versions of Cook's map of New Zealand, engraved by Zuliani after Pasuali. Cook's route around the islands is marked in colour, and the title vignette shows a Maori village. TOOLEY: Australia 1433.

£1,500

475

[New Zealand] DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastian César.
Carte Générale de la Partie de la Nouvelle-Zélande Reconnue par le Capitaine de Frégate Dumont D'Urville, Dressée par Mr. Lottin, Enseigne de V.au. Expédition de la Corvette de S.M. l'Astrolabe. Janvier, Février, Mars, 1827. Paris: 1833. Coloured. 590 x 440mm.
Large and detailed chart of the North Island, as mapped during Dumont d'Urville's second visit to New Zealand.

£450

476

[New Zealand] ARROWSMITH, John.
Map of the Colony of New Zealand from Official Documents. James & Luke J. Hansard, London, 1844, original colour, 610 x 495mm.
Showing North and South Islands, especially concentrating on coastal and geographical features. "Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 29th July 1844". Densely settled areas are marked in red. With an inset World map in the lower right hand corner.

£650

477

[New Zealand, Maori Dance] DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastian César.
Baie Houa Houa, Naturels exécutant une danse à bord de l'Astrolabe. J. Tastu, Paris, c.1833, Lithograph, original colour, 235 x 350mm.
This print is taken from the account of d'Urville's voyage published in 1833, it was probably produced to illustrate the following passage which occurred during his exploration of New Zealand
"There remained on board fifteen Natives, of whom five or six were females, who had allowed their canoe to depart, with the intention of passing the night with us. They were at first very much alarmed, and thought we were going to carry them off. I endeavoured to reassure them by explaining the reasons that forced me to quit the anchorage so hastily; then they resumed their confidence and gave us a representation of one of their dances and passed the night in gaiety."
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) commanded L'Astrolabe when it sailed in 1826 on a 3 year voyage whose original mission was to investigate the fate of the La Pérouse expedition (the original L'Astrolabe was among the lost ships).d'Urville further surveyed the Pacific region accompanied by illustrators who produced 243 plates documenting natural specimens, landscapes and native populations. During the second circumnavigation in 1837, along with the sister ship, the Zélée, he went as far south as Antarctica and a further 192 plates were illustrated.

£180

478

[Cook's Map of the Thames River] COOK, Captain James.
River Thames and Mercury Bay in New Zealand; Bay of Islands in New Zealand; Tolaga Bay in New Zealand. London, Strachan & Cadell, 1773. 330 x 440mm. Binding folds flattened.
Three charts on one sheet, from Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere'.

£350

479

[Cook's Map of Tahiti] COOK, Captain James.
Chart of the Island Otaheite, by Capt.n Cook. London: Alex Hogg, c.1785. 220 x 365mm. Narrow right margin, spot in title area.
Cook's mission on his First Voyage to the South Seas was to observe the passage of Venus across the Sun in 1769, at the request of the Royal Society. In the three months he stayed he sailed round the island in a small boat, a trip which resulted in this map. To the north can be seen 'Point Venus'.Engraved by Conder.

£85

480

[Society Islands] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Le Isole degli Amici Delineate sulle Observazioni del Cap. Cook. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 505 x 370mm.
Published in the scarce atlas, the 'Nuovo atlante geografico universale', this map is one of the most decorative of Tonga. Taken from the accounts of Captain Cook, who called the chain the Friendly Islands, it has an illustrated title cartouche and three insets.

£400

481

[Tahiti] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
L'Isola O-Tahiti scoperta dal Cap. Cook, Con le Marchesi di Mendoza. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 375 x 550mm.
Published in the scarce atlas, the 'Nuovo atlante geografico universale', this map is one of the most decorative of the island. Cook's mission on his First Voyage to the South Seas was to observe the passage of Venus across the Sun in 1769, at the request of the Royal Society. During the three months he stayed on the island he sailed round it in a small boat, a trip which resulted in this map. To the north can be seen 'Point Venus'. An inset show the Marquesas Islands.

£1,500