Quivirae Regnum &
Novae Guineae Forma & situs
Two maps on one sheet - Antwerp, de Jode 1593. (Koeman de Jode, Fol 12, page 210; Quivirae: Burden 82; Wagner NW 171; Suarez Pacific; 44; Novea Guineae: Schilder 13; Tooley 385; Suarez , Pacific, p60). Copper plate engraving in black & white - 34.5x23cm and 34.5x21.5 cm (= maps); 40x55.5 (=paper). Latin text in verso. Sharp and dark imprint on strong, white paper. This mapsheet has been split into two maps and has later been reunited again. Excellent condition.
This one mapsheet harbours two important maps. One is the first printed map of the NW coast of the Americas (Alaska); the other reputedly the first printed map of Australia. For this reason the map is usually split into two and sold separately. The Quirigua map is largely derived from Plancius 18 sheet worldmap of 1592 (Burden). There is only one state. The map can be united with the de Jode map of North America: Americae pars borealis. The Novae Guineae map is one of the basic map of any Australiana collection. Nova Guinea and Salomon islands are realistically drawn after the Mendanas discovery of 1576. The large landmass South thereof must be imaginary but as it precedes the Dutch first exploration of any part of Australia in 1606 and Torres passage though "his strait North of Australia, but it fits in perfectly well with the many stories of Java le Grande (French) or possible Portuguese southern explorations and or the Spanish desire to discover Australia sailing west from Lima (Mendana; Quiros)
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Quad M.
Chicasive Patagonica ... Australis Terra
1608 - From the Fasciculus temporum - B/W as issued. (Meurer 7/86)
Strong and dark imprint. Exceptional and rare map of the Southland. Mint.
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Bowen
A Map of the Discoveries made by Capt. William Dampier in the Roebuck in 1699
1764 - 19.9 x 32 cm - coloured
"... This discovery of Captain Dampier that the Country he named New Britain was an Island is of very great importance, since it lessens the Difficulties of settling a Colony in this part of the World that might probably be attended with great Advantages, as well with respect to the profits drawn from the Plantations as from the Commerce of the neighbouring Countries...."
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van Wijk, J.
Australia
c. 1851 - lithographed map with original outline colour
Large detailed map of Australia and the Pacific with insets of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Island and Australia South-West.
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