Catégorie : Southern Continent

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 20/09/2024 Date Acquired: 14/8/2010 Dealers ID No.: M949 (STK 1993.01) Description: This cadastral map was the first separately issued publication to show the spread of settlement in Sydney since colonisation in 1788. The information was based on a plan prepared for Governor Hunter in 1796 by…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 14/8/2024 Dealers ID No.: (STK 1994.01) Description: The map covers an extensive area, stretching from the Solitary Isles (near Coffs Harbour) in the north to Pigeon House in the south and extending inland to the marshes of the Lachlan River. Below the…

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…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 17/8/2005 Dealers ID No.: M814 (STK 1513.01) Description: This original manuscript map of Australia, drawn and annotated by Allan Cunningham in 1822, represents a rare intersection of early botanical science and exploration cartography. Created following Cunninghams return from Phillip Parker Kings fourth…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 20/8/2012 Description: Melchisedech Thévenot was a French author, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomatrenowned for his insatiable curiosity and broad scholarly interests. Among his many achievements, the publication of Relation de divers voyages curieux (16631672) stands out as one of the…

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…

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…

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…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M223 (STK 815.01) Description: François Valentijn was a Dutch missionary and scholar who spent much of his life in the service of the Dutch East India Company (V.O.C.). In 1685, he was sent to Ambon as a minister…

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…