Antique Maps of the Pacific & 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

[Tasmania separates from Australia]

I.C.M. Reinecke.
General Charte von Australien...

Weimar, 1803. 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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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, Fiji and Tonga.
SDUK0033

[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

[Chart of the Santa Cruz Islands]

Rigobert Bonne.
Isles de la Reine Charlotte.

Paris, c.1770. 355 x 250mm. Colored.
The Santa Cruz islands, part of the Solomon Islands group.
BONN0033

[View of Matavai Bay, Tahiti]

Benard.
Vue de la Bay de Matavai à Otahiti appellé Havre du Port-Royal par le Capitaine Wallis.

Paris, c.1785. 250 x 410mm.
Matavai Bay, where Cook set up camp while waiting for the eclipse of the sun by Venus in 1779. When Samuel Wallis had visited the area island in 1767 he named it Port Royal. From a French edition of the official account of Cook's First Voyage.
BENA0016