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Antique Maps of Australia, New Zealand & Oceania

[Chart of the Pacific winds] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

Répresentation du Cours ordinaire des Vents de Traverse, qui regnent sur les côtes dans la grande Mer du Sud.

Paris, c.1760. 155 x 300mm.
Map of the winds of the South Pacific from South America to Indochina, engraved by Cosmant.
BELL0097

£150

[Early view of the Antarctic Ice] Capt. James Cook.

Gezigt van eenen grooten Ys-klomp drijvende in de Zuid-Zee 9 Jan 1773.

Amsterdam, c.1780. 240 x 355mm.
The crew of Captain Cook's ship, the 'Resolution', investigating the Antarctic ice. Engraved by Klauber for a Dutch edition of Captain Cook's Second Voyage.
COOK0007

£150

[Cook's Chart of the Harbours of Kerguelen Island] Benard.

Plan du Port Palliser dans la Terre de Kerguelen. Plan de Havre de Noël dans la Terre de Kerguelen.

Paris, c.1785. 180 x 240mm.
Cook visited Kerguelen Island, in the southern Indian Ocean, in 1776, only four years after they were discovered by Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec, who claimed them for France Engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0011

£39

[View of Ice Islands, Antarctic] Alexander Hogg.

View of the Ice Islands as seen in Cook's Second Voyage on Jan.y 9. 1773.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 230 x 345mm.
On his second voyage Cook sailed around Antarctica. This view shows sailors breaking off ice from a berg.
HOGG0003

£125

[Coastal Profiles of Kerguelen's Island by William Bligh] Alexander Hogg.

Three View of Arched Point on Kerguelen's Land.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 220 x 365mm.
Kergulen's Island in the southern Indian Ocean, visited by Cook in 1776. Although unaccredited in this edition the views were drawn by Cook's sailing master, William Bligh, later to find infamy in the 'Mutiny on the Bounty'. Engraved for an edition of Cook's Voyages.
HOGG0010

£85

[Tasmania separates from Australia] I.C.M. Reinecke.

General Charte von Australien...

Weimar, 1804. 470 x 620mm. Original colour.
The first German map to separate Tasmania from mainland Australia, although the coastline further west has yet to be mapped.
REIN0003

£525

[Polynesia] John Pinkerton.

Polynesia.

London, c.1813. 540 x 730mm. Original colour.
Map covers the east coast of Australia & the Mariannes east to the Sandwich Islands & the Marquesas, from 'Pinkerton's Modern Atlas'.
PINK0006

£150

[Pacific Islands] John Thomson.

Map of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Edinburgh, 1817. 510 x 620mm. Original colour.
Map of the Pacific Ocean from New South Wales and the Ladrones east to Hawaii and the Marquesas. Insets include Hawaii and Tahiti.
THOM0012

£225

[Pacific] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

The Pacific Ocean.

London: SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 400mm. Original outline colour.
Detailed map of the Pacific Ocean
SDUK0030

£49

[Polynesia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

London: SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 330 x 405mm. Original outline colour. Trimmed to printed border on right.
Map of the Pacific including Hawaii, the Mariannes, Fuji and Tonga.
SDUK0033

£49

[Pacific map with New Zealand, Hawaii & Phillippines] John Arrowsmith.

Pacific Ocean.

London, 1842. 525 x 635mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of the Pacific. Issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation. It notes first western landfall: Phillippines (1511), New Guinea (1527), Solomon Islands (1568), Fiji (1643), Hawaii (Cook's death), Australia (1616), New Zealand (1642) and North America with old California separately marked.
ARRO0007

£125

[Map of Pacific and Australia] A. Brué.

Carte de L'Océanie ou Cinquieme Partie du Monde.

Paris: Goujon & Andriveau, 1847. Steel engraving, 640 x 910mm. Original colour.
A large and detailed map of Australasia and the South Pacific, with an inset of the British colonies in New South Wales. It is interesting that the publishers have entered into partnerships with publishers in Berlin, Manheim, Vienna, Zurich, London & Milan to sell their maps.
BRUE0001

£150

[Pacific Ocean] Victor Levasseur.

Océanie.

Paris, 1852. Steel engraving, printed area 320 x 430mm. Original colour.
Map of the Pacific, showing Japan and California south to Australia and New Zealand.
LEVA0009

£85

[Pacific Islands] George Philip

Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Liverpool, 1856. Steel engraving, 520 x 615mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of the South Pacific, showing the east coast of Australia and the Marianne Islands east to Hawaii and the Marquesas, with insets of Hawaii and Tahiti. The colour is particularly fine.
PHIL0011

£68

[Christmas Island] Benard.

Isle de Noël.

Paris, c.1785. 185 x 240mm. Stain just on the edge of the plate.
Christmas Island, engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0008

£60

[Christmas Island] Alexander Hogg.

Christmas Island.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 235 x 310mm.
Christmas Island, engraved for an edition of Cook's Voyages.
HOGG0012

£75

[Stubbs's painting of a Kangaroo] George Stubbs

Quadrupede nommé Kanguroo, trouvé sur la côte de la N.le Hollande.

Paris, c.1800. 230 x 180mm.
The painter George Stubbs, better known for his horse portraits, was commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks to paint the first kangaroo brought to England, a stuffed specimen brought back by Captain Cook. This was engraved for use as an illustration of the Official Account of Cook's First Voyage, of which this is a French edition.
STUB0001

£150

[Detailed Western Australia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Western Australia containing the Settlements of Swan-River and King George's Sound...; Van-Diemen Island...

London, Baldwin & Cradock, 1833. Steel engraving, printed area 325 x 400mm. Original colour. Narrow lateral margins.
Detailed maps of Australiafrom surveys sent to the Colonial Office.
SDUK0039

£60

[Australia] Adolf Stieler.

Festland von Australien unf benachbarte Inseln.

Hildburghausen, c.1841. 350 x 430mm. Original colour.
Map of Australia and New Zealand, with the Solomon Islands and New Hebrides.
MEYE0002

£150

[Miniature Map of New Guinea and the Cape York Peninsula] Alain Manesson Mallet.

Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie...

Paris, 1683. 155 x 115mm. Coloured.
Map of New Guinea and the Cape York Peninsula, depicted before the Torres Strait was charted, suggesting the two are joined.
MALL0015

£125

[Early map of New South Wales based on Cook] Rigobert Bonne.

N.lle Galles Mérid.le ou Côte Orientale de la Nouvelle Hollande.

Paris, 1788. 355 x 250mm.
The east coast of Australia, as mapped by Captain Cook during his first circumvavigation, 1769-71. His survey was the first of the area by a European.
BONN0011

£195

[New South Wales] Adolf Stieler.

Karte von dem Südöstlichen Theile Australia's... von Neu Süd Wales bis zum Jahre 1832.

Hildburghausen, c.1834. 340 x 430mm. Original colour. Some slight spotting.
Map of the colonies of New South Wales, with an inset of south westerern Australia marking Perth.
MEYE0011

£150

[New South Wales] John Tallis.

New South Wales.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 345 x 250mm. Original colour.
New South Wales map marking the gold diggings, with a vignette prospect of Sydney.
TALL0023

£200

[Prospect of Sydney] Eigenthum.

Sydney.

German, c.1860. Steel engraving. 130 x 160mm.

EIGE0001

£68

[Prospect of Sydney] G.F. Sargent.

Sydney.

c.1860. Steel engraving. 150 x 210mm. Trimmed to title at bottom.

SARG0001

£56

[Parakeet of Tasmania] Audebert.

Perruche à Taches Noires du Cap de Diemen.

Paris, c.1791. 310 x 445mm.
A ground parakeet, published in the account of Bruny D'Entrecasteaux's search for La Pèrouse.
AUDE0001

£125

[Detailed map of Tasmania] John Tallis.

Tasmania.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 345 x 255mm. Original colour. Trimmed top and bottom.
With four vignettes including a prospect of Hobart.
TALL0058

£79

[West Australia] John Tallis.

Western Australia, Swan River.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 240mm. Original colour.
Map of West Australia with seven engraved vignettes, including a view of Perth and a sheep-shearing scene.
TALL0028

£225

[View of Moai, the Stone Heads of Easter Island] Benard.

Monumens dans l'Isle de Pâques.

Paris, c.1785. 235 x 370mm.
View of the legendary stone heads of Easter Island, with a skeleton. Engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0010

£95

[View of Moai, the Stone Heads of Easter Island] Alexander Hogg.

A View of the Monuments, &c. in Easter Island.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 235 x 360mm.
View of the legendary stone heads of Easter Island, with a skeleton. Engraved for an edition of Cook's Voyages.
HOGG0008

£95

[Portraits of Easter Island Natives] Alexander Hogg.

A Woman of Easter Island. A Man of Easter Island.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 230 x 350mm.
Natives with elongated earlobes. Engraved for an edition of Cook's Voyages.
HOGG0009

£85

[View of Moai, the Stone Heads of Easter Island] Anonymous.

A View of the Monuments, &c. in Easter Island.

London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1829. 200 x 250mm. Trimmed at top and bottom, remargined.
View of the legendary stone heads of Easter Island, with Europeans surrounded by natives, most friendly but one attempting to steal a tricorn hat.
FISH1002

£49

[Map of Fiji during the Annexation by Great Britain.] Commodore J.G.Goodenough.

Names of Provinces in Fiji. H.M.S. 'Pearl'. Commodore J.G.Goodenough 1874.

London: Harrison & Sons, c.1874. Colour lithograph. 300 x 390mm. With a mostly illegible facsimile signature, 'Baker'.
The official map of the new colony of Fiji, annexed that year. Goodenough noted that one of the native chiefs who signed the annexation document ‘was sulky and had been drunk’.
GOOD0001

£75

[Early print of a Maori Village] Capt. James Cook.

Gezigt in een Verschanst Dorp van Nieuw-Zeeland.

Amsterdam, c.1780. 240 x 380mm.
View of a Maori village. Engraved by Klauber for a Dutch edition of Captain Cook's Second Voyage.
COOK0008

£200

[View of a Hippah, a New Zealand Village] Alexander Hogg.

A Fortified Town, or Village, Called a Hippah, built on a Perforated Rock, at Tolaga, In New Zealand.

London: Hogg, c.1785. 220 x 345mm.
A view from Cook's Second Voyage.
HOGG0004

£95

[Upper Arawata Country, New Zealand] Gerhard Mueller.

Topographical Map of Upper Arawata Country.

Wellington: General Survey Office, 1885. Photolithograph, printed in colours. 315 x 350mm.
Detailed map of part of West Otago.
MUEL0001

£225

[Polynesia, with vignette views] John Tallis.

Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

London, London Printing & Publishing Co., c.1860. Steel-engraving. 260 x 350mm.
The South Pacific, with Australia lower left, Japan upper left and Baja California upper right. The vignettes include a view of Kalakakooa Bay on Hawaii.
TALL0047

£90