Antique Maps of
Australia, New Zealand
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[A portrait of Joseph Banks] Capt. James Cook.
Mr Banks receiving a Visit from the King of Duke of York's Island. View of a Perforated Rock, in Tolego Bay. View of a Town in the Island of Terra del Fuego.
London, Alexander Hogg, c.1790. 225 x 370mm.
Illustrations from one of Captain Cook's circumnavigations. COOK0015		 £56
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[Map of Australia & New Zealand] A. Brué.
Carte de L'Australie...
Paris, Piquet, 1834. Steel-engraving, 380 x 530mm. Original outline colour.
Australia & New Zealand, with three insets. Of particular interest is a small map of Australia marked with the nine divisions proposed by Captain Vetch of the Royal Corps. BRUE0002		 £200
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[Australia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Australia in 1839.
London, SDUK, 1840. Steel engraving, printed area 330 x 405mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Australia with the English colonies marked. SDUK0003		 £125
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[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
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[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
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[Two-Sheet Map of the British Colonisation of Australia] John Arrowsmith.
Australia from Surveys Made by Order of the British Government Combined with those of D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet &c. &c.
London, 1847. Two steel engraved sheets, each c. 640 x 500mm. Original colour. Splits in centrefolds repaired. Trimmed for atlas tabs as usual.
Detailed map of Australia, compiled for the 'London Atlas' by Arrowsmith, the foremost British cartographer of his generation. However the detail is still confined to the coastal areas other than in New South Wales. ARRO0017		 £750
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[Map of the British Colonisation of New South Wales] John Arrowsmith.
The South Eastern Portion of Australia; compiled from the Colonial Surveys, and from details furnished by Exploratory Expeditions.
London, 1842. 535 x 645mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of New South Wales, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation. The newly formed counties are marked, as are the the inland expeditions made 1817-1840. ARRO0011		 £560
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[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
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[Map of the British Colonisation of South Australia, with an early plan of Adelaide] John Arrowsmith.
The Maritime Portion of South Australia, from Capt.n Flinders & from more recent surveys made by the Surv.r Gen.l of the Colonies.
London, 1840. 530 x 630mm. Original colour. Some wear to edges, centrefold and original tabs.
Detailed map of New South Wales, issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation. The main map shows little more than the coastline around Spencer Gulf; insets show sketches of Encounter Bay & Nepean Bay, an enlarged detail of the land around Adelaide, and a detailed plan of "The City of Adelaide, with the Acre Allotments numbered. Surveyed by Col. Light". Colonel William Light (1786 - 1839), laid out the street plan Adelaide, which was founded in 1836, only four years before this map was published. Adelaide thus became one of the last great planned metropolises. ARRO0015		 £560
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[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
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[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
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[Map of the British Colonisation of Western Australia] John Arrowsmith.
The Colony of Western Australia; from the Surveys of John Septimus Roe Esq.r Surveyor Gen.l And from other Official Documents in the Colonial Office and Admiralty.
London, 1842. 530 x 640mm. Original colour. Split in lower centrefold margin. Trimmed for atlas tabs as usual.
Detailed map of Western Australia, using the surveys of J.S. Roe, Surveyor-General for the British Colony of Western Australia for 42 years and the "father of Australian explorers". His 16 expeditions (1830-1849) did much to open the interior of the continent. He chose the sites for Perth and Freemantle, which are two of the five town plans inset around the map, with Augusta, Kelmscott & Guildford. The map was compiled for the 'London Atlas' by Arrowsmith, the foremost British cartographer of his generation. ARRO0016		 £980
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[Pair of portraits of Easter Island Natives.] Capt. James Cook.
Homme de l'Isle de Pâques. [&] Femme de l'Isle de Pâques.
Paris, c.1780. Pair of engravings, each c,240 x 180mm.
COOK0010		 £140
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[View of Easter Island] Alexander Hogg.
A View of Monuments, &c in Easter Island.
London: Hogg, c.1785. 225 x 330mm.
Cook visited Easter Island in 1774, on the return home from his Second Voyage. HOGG0005		 £95
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[Map of New Guinea] Alexander Hogg.
A Chart of Capt.n Carteret's Discoveries at New Britain, with part of Capt.n Cook's Passage thro Endeavour Streights, & of Capt.n Dampier's Tract & Discoveries in 1699, & 1700, at New Guinea & New Britain.
London: Hogg, c.1785. 160 x 360mm.
Despite the visits of these three British explorers, New Guinea still has only a partial outline. HOGG0002		 £125
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[Early Miniature Map of New Zealand] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isles de Salomon.
Paris, c.1683. 150 x 105mm. Coloured.
New Zealand map with the believed outline nearly a century before Cook's discovery. The Solomon Islands are joined to New Zealand! MALL0033		 £150
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[Waterspouts endangering Captain Cook's Ship] Capt. James Cook.
Gezigt van Waterhoozen aan de Kust van Nieuw-Zeeland.
Amsterdam, c.1780. 240 x 355mm.
Waterspouts endangering Captain Cook's ship, the 'Resolution', off the coast of New Zealand, May 1773. Engraved by Klauber for a Dutch edition of Captain Cook's Second Voyage. COOK0005		 £150
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[Early print of Maoris] Capt. James Cook.
Inboorlingen van de Donkere-Baai op Nieuw-Zeeland.
Amsterdam, c.1780. 250 x 350mm.
Portrait of a Maori family, 1773. Engraved by Klauber for a Dutch edition of Captain Cook's Second Voyage. COOK0006		 £150
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[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
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[Early print of a Maori Canoe] Capt. James Cook.
Oorlogs=Praauw van Nieuw-Zeeland.
Amsterdam, c.1780. 230 x 355mm.
View of a Maori war canoe. Engraved by Klauber for a Dutch edition of Captain Cook's Second Voyage. COOK0009		 £180
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[Illustrations of Souveniers from Cook's Circumnavigations] Capt. James Cook.
A Chest of New Zealand, as a specimen of the Carving of that Country. A Fly Flap of Ohiteroa. A Military Gorget worn in thy South Sea Islands.
London, Alexander Hogg, 1785. 225 x 370mm.
Illustrations from one of Captain Cook's circumnavigations. COOK0003		 £56
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[Depiction of Natives from the South Seas] Capt. James Cook.
A Native of Otaheite defying his Enemy by the Wry Mouth. A New Zealand Warrior defying his Enemies. [etc.]
London, Alexander Hogg, 1785. 230 x 345mm. Narrow bottom margin.
Illustrations from one of Captain Cook's circumnavigations. COOK0013		 £56
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[Illustrations from Cook's Visit to New Zealand] Capt. James Cook.
A curiously Arched Rock on the Coast of New Zealand. A New Zealand Chief whose head is ingeniously Tatawed, and a Subaltern Warrior of the Same Country.
London, Alexander Hogg, 1785. 285 x 190mm.
Illustrations from one of Captain Cook's circumnavigations, within a decorative border. COOK0014		 £56
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[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
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[Depiction of a Maori Family.] Capt. James Cook.
A Family in Dusk Bay, New Zealand.
London, c.1790. 230 x 250mm. Coloured.
A scene from one of Captain Cook's circumnavigations. COOK0012		 £95
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[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
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