Catégorie : Book/atlas

Acquired From: Tim McCormick Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 15/9/2000 Description: The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay (1789) is one of the earliest and most important accounts of the British colonisation of Australia. The book provides a detailed narrative of the First Fleets journey, the establishment of the penal colony…

Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: This booklet describes the so-called Tasman 'Bonaparte' map, an ornate manuscript map on Japanese paper bought in 1891 by Prince Roland Bonaparte, and presented to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia (where it is shelved at ML 863), by the Princess George of Greece in 1933. Now thought to be neither…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 6/3/2003 Dealers ID No.: (STK 48.23) Description: François Valentijn was a minister who devoted most of his life to the employ of the VOC. In 1685 he was sent by the VOC to Ambon as a Minister to the East Indies, where he…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: This is the navigation and geography volume from the official account of the Baudin expedition to the southern lands, undertaken by order of Napoleon Bonaparte and led by Captain Nicolas Baudin. The third volume (Tome 3), published in 1812 under the authorship of Louis Claude de Freycinet, focuses…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: (STK 126.23) Description: The Atlas of Australasia was the first national atlas printed in Australia. It features five large maps of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, North Australia or Albert Land (now the Northern Territory), and South Australia. Additionally, it includes…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: (STK 134/23) Description: This textbook was designed for use in New South Wales schools. As a frontipiece it featured this world map on Mercator projection. Engraver: Carmichael, John First published: Sydney: J. Moore, 1850 Mapmaker: Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792-1855) Notes: Need…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/11/2004 Dealers ID No.: (STK 66.23) Description: F. C. (Frederik Caspar) Weider's 1942 publication, Tasman's Kaart van zijn Australische ontdekkingen 1644: 'de Bonaparte-kaart', offers an in-depth analysis of the so-called Bonaparte Mapa significant cartographic artifact derived from Abel Tasman's 1644 explorations of Australia's northern and…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 12/10/2024 Date Acquired: 2/9/2022 Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps. Titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), this groundbreaking work first released in 1570, established the concept of the modern atlas. Ortelius personally drafted the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/6/2018 Description: Johannes Sadeler I was a draftsman, engraver, and publisher who moved to Antwerp in 1572 and collaborated closely with Marten de Vos over many years. One of their most notable joint works is a famous series that features representations of the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: 15/8/2018 Dealers ID No.: 18932 Description: The Nova Reperta (New Discoveries) offers a comprehensive visual record of early modern achievements, highlighting milestones such as the discovery of the New World (the Americas), as well as advancements in medicine, mechanics, and the arts. First published around…