Catégorie : Southern Continent

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: Melchisedech Thévenot was a French author, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was also a tireless scholar with an insatiable curiosity about the world. Among his many achievements, his 1663 publication of Relation de divers voyages curieux stands out as a monumental…

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.…

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…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 4/2/2002 Dealers ID No.: M136/3 (STK 2020.01) on verso BB688 Description: This reduced version of Louis de Freycinets general map of Australia was issued in the Atlas Historique, part of the revised second edition of the official account of the Baudin expedition (18001804).…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: 26/5/2016 Description: Claes Jansz. Visscher was a leading Amsterdam map publisher whose output played a central role in shaping Dutch cartography in the first half of the seventeenth century. He established his publishing house in 1611 on the Kalverstraat, close to leading contemporaries such as…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 26/5/2016 Description: Claes Jansz. Visscher was a leading Amsterdam map publisher whose output played a central role in shaping Dutch cartography in the first half of the seventeenth century. He established his publishing house in 1611 on the Kalverstraat, close to leading contemporaries…