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Descriptio hydrographica accommodata ad battavorum navagatione in Javam insulam Indie Orientalis, seatum ad quam postridie calendas Aprilis anno…
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 29/4/2014 Description: When the pioneering Dutch expedition (1595-1597) to the East Indies, led by Cornelis de Houtman returned to the Dutch Republic, efforts to publish the findings were quickly undertaken. In April 1598, Cornelis Claesz. published Historie van Indien, the journal by Willem…
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Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis et aliarum Malaccam usque, delineata in insula Iava, ubi ad vivum designantur vada et brevia…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M871/1 (STK 1667.01) Description: This map, titled in English New Map of the Islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Others up to Malacca, Drawn in Java, Where Reefs, Shoals, and Intervening Rocks Are Shown from Life, was published by Theodor de Bry…
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Descriptio hydrographica accommodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam insulam Indie Orien: talis. Laetam ad quam poftridie Calendis Aprilis ann…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 16/5/2003 Dealers ID No.: M693 (STK 1373.01) Description: This engraved map (Hydrographic Description Relating to the Dutch Voyage to Java in the East Indies) charts the route of the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies (159597), led by Cornelis de Houtman.…
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This single engraved globe gore by Vincenzo Coronelli,
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 23/12/2000 Dealers ID No.: M103 (STK 1006.01) Description: This single engraved globe gore by Vincenzo Coronelli, originally designed in 1688 for his monumental 42-inch terrestrial globe, was later adapted for atlas format and published in the Isolario (16961697) or the Libro dei Globi…
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De la terre universelle (Typus orbis terrarum)
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 18/1/2002 Dealers ID No.: M87 (STK 1093.01) Description: Johannes Cloppenburg, a Dutch bookseller active in early seventeenth-century Amsterdam, is best known for producing the fourth and final edition of Jodocus Hondius Is Atlas minor (originally published in 1607). In 1630, Cloppenburg commissioned Pieter…
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Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande No. 1
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair, general staining Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M136/1 (STK 1087.01) 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 Napoleon…
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Map showing the Railway Systems of the Colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good. Holes along top fold line. Loss top right and middle folds Confirmed: No Description: Produced by the Chief Engineers Office in Brisbane and lithographed by Prosdocimi, this map depicts the railway systems of the eastern Australian colonies as of 1880. Existing railways, railways under construction, and projected railways are distinguished, alongside…
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Map of the Colony of New South Wales
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, a British surveyor, arrived in Sydney in 1827 with his family. In 1828, he was appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales, a role he held for nearly thirty years. During his tenure, Mitchell led four major expeditions (1831-1832, 1835-1836, 1836, and 1845-1846) into Australias interior.…
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Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia
Acquired From: Peter Arnold Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: 27/11/2024 Description: Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, a British surveyor, arrived in Sydney with his family in 1827. The following year, he was appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales, a position he held for nearly three decades. During his tenure, he led four major expeditions into Australias…
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The History of New Holland from its first discovery in 1616 to the present time…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 1/12/ Dealers ID No.: M35 (STK 92.23) Description: The book is often erroneously attributed to William Eden because his Principles of Penal Law are in the preface, however the book's author is unknown. The book was published on the eve of the departure…