TALLIS, John. [South Australia]
Part of South Australia. London, c.1851. Original colour. steel engraving, 260 x 330mm.
with a decorative border and attractive vignettes of Adelaide, Aborigines and native fauna. With mining districts marked.
[Ref: 10656]    £150.00 ($231 • €182 rates)

TALLIS, John. Victoria, or Port Philip. London, c.1851. Original colour. steel engraving, 260 x 330mm.
with a decorative border and attractive vignettes of kangaroos, aborigines and views of Melbourne and the River Glenelg. This map has the gold fields marked in yellow.
[Ref: 10655]    £150.00 ($231 • €182 rates)

QUAD, Matthias. [Terra Australis]
Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. MDC. Cologne, Johan Bussemacher, c.1608. Some names highlighted in old colour. 220 x 290mm. An excellent example: a strong impression with wide margins
A close copy of the famous map by Wytfliet: divided into two, the upper section shows the tip of South America, with a strait separating it from Terra Australis; the lower shows the southern hemisphere, the South Pole and the Terra Australis, with promontories reaching towards Africa, Java and New Guinea.
[Ref: 9086]    £750.00 ($1,155 • €908 rates)

DAMPIER, William. [Dampier's Voyage to Australia]
Voyage du Cap.e Dampier, A la N.Hollande &C en 1699 &c. Paris, c.1705. 170 x 280mm.
Dampier, a reformed pirate, published an account of his buccaneering voyages in 1697, gaining himself a better reputation. He used it be get the command of HMS Roebuck on an expedition to explore Australia, which set out in 1699. He anchored in Shark's Bay in July, but was unable to find any fresh water or provisions. With his crew suffering from scurvy he left Australia for Timor, then sailed to New Guinea, finding and naming New Britain, as marked on this map. The low morale and poor condition of his ship made Dampier turn for home, after re-provisioning in Batavia. Having passed the Cape of Good Hope his ship spang a leak, but it managed to reach Ascension Island, where it was beached and abandoned. His crew was stuck on the desolate island until they were picked up by a home-bound fleet. This map comes from a French edition of his "Voyage to New Holland, &C", published in London 1703.
[Ref: 10329]    £340.00 ($524 • €411 rates)

BÉNARD, Robert. [Cook's Map of the South Pacific]
Carte d'une partie de la Mer du Sud Contenant les Découvertes des Vaisseaux de sa Majesté... Paris, Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, 1774. 365 x 655mm. Binding folds flattened as usual. Wide margins.
A general chart of the South Pacific, engraved by Benard for a French edition of Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', first published 1773. The routes of Byron, Wallis and Carteret are shown, as well as Cook's first voyage.
[Ref: 7868]    £650.00 ($1,001 • €787 rates)

ZATTA, Antonio. [Oceania]
Nuove Scoperte Fatte nel 1765, 67 e 69 nel Mare del Sud. Venice, 1776. Original outline colour. 320 x 420mm.
Oceania, showing the routes of Carteret and Byron, but most importantly the discoveries made by Captain Cook, 1768-71. These include the first circumnavigation of New Zealand and the mapping of the eastern coast of Australia. The coastline of southern Australia is only guessed at. MCC 12: One Hundred Foreign Maps of Australia, 2, plate II.
[Ref: 9552]    £1,100.00 ($1,694 • €1,331 rates)

FORSTER, George. [The First Published Chart of Cook's Second Voyage]
A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere according to the latest Discoveries with the Tracks of the Resolution, Capn. Cook; and the Adventure, Capn. Furneaux; from 1772 to 1775. London: 1777. 675 x 665mm. Binding folds flattened, with a few small repairs.
The Southern Hemisphere, engraved by Whitchurch, showing Cook's route on his second circumnavigation. George Forster and his father accompanied Cook on the voyage, writing about anthropology. When their texts were refused publication in the official account by the Earl of Sandwich, the Forsters published their own account, containing this map, which was released just six weeks before the official version.
[Ref: 8313]    £1,500.00 ($2,310 • €1,815 rates)

BÉNARD, Robert. [Southern Hemisphere]
Carte de L'Hemisphere Austral Montrant les Routes des Navigateurs les plus Célebres Par le Captaine Jacques Cook. Paris, Saillant et Nyon & Panckouke, c.1780. Coloured. 550 x 550mm. Binding folds flattened as usual on this map.
From a French edition of Hawkesworth's important work 'An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere', first published 1773. The Southern Hemisphere, marking the routes of Cook (across the Pacific and around New Zealand & the east coast of Australia), and other explorers.
[Ref: 10133]    £450.00 ($693 • €545 rates)

SCHRAEMBLE, Franz Anton. Polynesien (Inselwelt) Oder Der Fünfte Welttheil. Vienna, 1789, old colour, 470 x 695mm
A large map of Oceania reprinted by Schraemble after a Swedish map by Daniel Djurberg (1780). In common with Djurberg's map, Australia and New Zealand are both marked with their native Aboriginal and Maori names. Australia's shoreline has yet to be fully mapped, especially on the southern coast which is delineated by a dotted line, furthermore Tasmania is still shown as joined to the mainland. The voyages of Cook, on which this map depends for its cartography, are indicated with variously dotted lines to differentiate them.
[Ref: 9100]    £980.00 ($1,509 • €1,186 rates)

Anonymous. Oceania. Italian, c.1830. Coloured. 230 x 320mm.
Shows Australia & New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Sandwich & Society Islands. A later state of a map: under the title is a blank area where part of the title has been erased, without re-engraving the grid to cover it.
[Ref: 10187]    £110.00 ($169 • €133 rates)