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Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande No. 1
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 9/12/2003 Dealers ID No.: M136 (STK 1433.01) Description: Louis de Freycinets general map of Australia reflects the extensive surveys and coastal explorations conducted by the French during the expedition to the southern hemisphere led by Nicolas Baudin between 1800 and 1804. Commissioned by…
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A Chart of Part of the Interior of NSW with Plans of the Harbours respectfully dedicated to Major Mitchell, Surveyor General of New South Wales
Acquired From: Tim McCormick Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 15/9/2000 Description: This separately issued, large-scale map of New South Wales was published by Joseph Cross in London in 1832 and dedicated to Major Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (17921855), then Surveyor General of New South Wales. Mitchells distinguished career included four major expeditions into…
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Carta XVIIII. L.o6.o – Carta particolare della costa Australe scoperta dall’Olandesi
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 6/4/2001 Dealers ID No.: M130/1 (STK 1083.01) Description: This important chart depicts the western and northwestern coasts of Australia, based on discoveries made during early Dutch voyages in the first half of the seventeenth century. It forms part of Robert Dudleys DellArcano del…
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New Holland & the adjacent islands, agreeable to the latest discoveries
Acquired From: Antique Print & Map Room Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: In 1787, Alexander Kincaid published A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar, an adaption of William Guthries book of the same title, first published in 1770. A second edition followed in 1788, and a third in 1790, which included fourteen…
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Plan of Sydney with Pyrmont, New South Wales: The Latter The Property of Edwd. Macarthur Esqre. Divided into Allotments for Building 1836.
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 29/9/2005 Dealers ID No.: (STK 1538.01) Description: This planshows the first subdivision of the Harris estate by Edward Macarthur, which created the suburb of Pyrmont, dated 1837. The majority of the Pyrmont peninsula was granted in the early years of the colony…
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A Survey of Port Jackson, New South Wales
Acquired From: Tim McCormick Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Poor-mould, stain, insects spot Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 15/9/2000 Description: John Septimus Roe, a Royal Navy officer and skilled surveyor, was assigned to the hydrographic service in New South Wales under the command of Phillip Parker King. Arriving in the colony in September 1817, Roe spent the next…
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Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M417/1 (STK 838.01) Description: Cornelius Wytfliet was a geographer from Louvain, earned a Licentiate in Laws from the University of Louvain before moving to Brussels, where he became secretary to the Council of Brabant. In 1597, he published Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum,…
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Map for Mr Pennants Outline of the Globe, vol IV, 1800
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 6/3/2006 Dealers ID No.: M407 (STK 65.23) Description: Unrecorded early map of Australia, one of the two appearances of the presumed existence of Bass Strait, reflecting knowledge of the Strait prior to its "discovery" by Matthew Flinders, 1798-1799.nBass Strait was named after George Bass after…
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South East Portion of Australia Shewing the routes of the three expeditions and surveyed territory
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 29/9/2005 Dealers ID No.: M819/1 (STK 1537.01) Description: Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, a British surveyor, arrived in Sydney in 1827 with his family Appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales in 1828, he held this position for nearly three decades. During his tenure, Mitchell…