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Carte Reduite Des Terres Australes

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Jacques Nicolas Bellin's interesting map of Australia was published in Abbe Prevost's "Histoire General Des Voyages". The Australian coastline as we know it today is vastly distorted on this eighteenth-century map. It shows mainland Australia joined both to Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) and Papua New Guinea. A partially depicted coast of New Zealand is also shown. Textual notes (in French) reveal the extent of Bellin's conjectures regarding these coastlines. A fine example of one of the very few pre-Cook maps to focus on the region.

region: Australia, Pacific & Antarctic Maps

mapmaker: J.N.Bellin

place and date of publication: Paris 1753

medium and colour: copperplate, Uncoloured
size in cms: 28 x 21

ref: 34921

Price: £ 950

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Carte Reduite Des Terres Australes

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