Tasman's depiction of the coast of New Zealand

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

Nouva Zelanda, ò Terra Degli Stati, detta dagl'Hollandesi Het Niew Zelandt.
Venice, 1696. Plate size 120 x 165mm, set in text.

This is the earliest printed map dedicated to New Zealand, although the information dates back to Tasman in 1642. Showing from the Island of Three Kings to Cape Clippage, it was published seventy years before the arrival of Captain Cook.

This plate was created to print a globe gore (i.e. to be pasted onto a globe), which accounts for the tapering longitude lines. It seems that the plate then got damaged, as it has been trimmed and new borders engraved for an edition of Coronelli's Isolario, set within an Italian text description.


Stock ID : 18117