Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries
Colouring: Coloured
Confirmed: No
Date Acquired: 25/07/2002
Dealers ID No.: M203 (STK 1075.01)
Description: the second earliest, published map of a completed Australian coastline and which shows the results of of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudins who completed the chart of the southern coasts from Nutys Land to Bass Strait, the results of which completed the coastal mapping of Australia. This map precedes Flinderss map of the continent as the publication of Flinders important atlas was in 1814, delayed by his imprisonment at Mauritius by the French. The cartouche in the lower left corner comprising an Australian Aboriginal man carrying a shield and spear, a banded hare-wallaby, a wombat and a canoe, all originally appeared as illustrations in the official published accounts of the Baudin voyage. The coast is coloured in sections to reflect various historical discoveries made by the Dutch, English and French
Engraver: Tardieu, J.B.
First published: Conrad Malte's Brun Atlas Complet du precis de la geographe du universlle in Paris, 1812
Mapmaker: Lapie, Pierre (1779-1850)
Notes: Invoiced, not photographed
Price: A1,100 plus gst
Primary Category: Not seen
Purchase Reference: In. 1135
References: Tooley, 844, Prescott 1812.36
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1812
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