Maps / Globes

ARROWSMITH, Aaron.
A Chart of Van Diemen's Land and Bass' Strait….
London, A. Arrowsmith, 2 March, 1822.

Large engraved handcoloured map, 820 x 655 mm., dissected and backed on linen, framed.

A wonderfully preserved copy of Arrowsmith's 1822 map of Van Diemen's Land and the islands of Bass Strait, a survey...

Tooley 'Printed Maps of Tasmania', 90.

Australian: $22,000 (Approx. US $22,955, Euro €15,950) Quote ref.

[ASPIN] GAULTIER, Abbe.
Asia for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
London, John Harris, 1832.

Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring; mounted.

An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa.

The map is based on...

Tooley, 132 (1823 issue).

Australian: $1850 (Approx. US $1930, Euro €1341) Quote ref.

BURGHERS, M. (engraver).
A new map of the Terraqueous Globe According to the Latest Discoveries….
Oxford, Edward Wells, 1701.

Handcoloured copper engraving, 425 x 530 mm. (sheet size), some mild browning yet very good.

A striking early eighteenth-century English double-hemisphere map with a splendid ornamental border featuring New World...

Shirley 'Maps in the Atlases of the British Library', 1032.

Australian: $5500 (Approx. US $5739, Euro €3988) Quote ref.

[COOK] CASSINI, Giovanni.
L’ Isola O-Taiti Scoperta del Cap. Cook con le Marchesa di Mendoza.
Rome, Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1798.

Engraved map, 370 x 420 mm. (plate size), attractive original handcolouring; a little wear, and some watermarking, but...

Cassini's beautiful map of Tahiti, perhaps the most significant port in Cook's explorations in the Pacific. Tahiti had...

Australian: $2750 (Approx. US $2869, Euro €1994) Quote ref.

[COOK] CASSINI, Giovanni.
Le Isole Della Societa e di Noel Delineate sille ultime Osservazioni del Capitan Cook.
Rome, Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1798.

Engraved map, 375 x 410 mm. (plate size), original handcolouring; a little watermarked and embrowned; an attractive...

Attractive map by Cassini of the "Leeward Isles" of the Society Islands, so named by Cook when he first visited the...

Australian: $2750 (Approx. US $2869, Euro €1994) Quote ref.

[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] BENARD, Robert after James COOK.
Carte de la Nlle. Galles Meridle. Ou de la Côte Orientale de la Nlle. Hollande Découverte et visitée par le Lieutenant J. Cook….
Paris, Saillant et Nyon, 1774.

Engraved map, 370 x 785 mm.; original folds; in fine condition, with good margins; mounted.

Perhaps Cook's most famous chart, here in its first French version, prepared for the French language edition of the...

Beddie, 660; David, Joppien and Smith, "The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages", 1.270A (English original).

Australian: $1750 (Approx. US $1826, Euro €1269) Quote ref.

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ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Indiæ Orientalis Insularum que Adiacientium Typus.
Antwerp, Plantin, 1598.

Engraved map, 350 x 495 mm., original hand-colouring, fine and framed.

One of the earliest maps of South East Asia: part of 'Terra Australis Incognita' is shown emerging from the south. This...

Clancy, 'Mapping of Terra Australis', 5.16 (1570 edition); Koeman, 31:351 (map 109); Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, 3.14 (1587 French edition); Van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, 166.

Australian: $6500 (Approx. US $6782, Euro €4713) Quote ref.

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PHILIP, George (publisher).
Philips’ New Series of Travelling Maps. Queensland with the unsettled territories adjoining the Gulf of Carpenteria.
London & Liverpool, George Philip & Son, circa, 1880.

Folding map measuring 690 x 570 mm., printed in colour on original linen backing, 16 pp. index; quite fine in original...

Large and handsome map of Queensland from the uniform series of traveller's maps issued by George Philip & Son. In...

Australian: $925 (Approx. US $965, Euro €671) Quote ref.

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PHILIP, George (publisher).
Philips’ New Series of Travelling Maps. Tasmania and New Guinea with Index.
London & Liverpool, George Philip & Son, circa, 1880.

Folding map measuring 540 x 720 mm., printed in colour on original linen backing, 24 pp. index, a few marks and flecks;...

Another well-preserved mid-nineteenth century travellers' map, this example with fine maps of Tasmania and, unusually,...

Not in Ferguson.

Australian: $850 (Approx. US $887, Euro €616) Quote ref.

REINECKE, J.C.M.
General Charte von Australien...
Weimar, Geographical Institute, 1804.

Engraved map, handcolour outline, 450 x 610 mm., in fine condition, mounted.

Johann Matthias Christoph Reinecke (1768-1818) of Halberstadt and Koburg was the official cartographer to the...

Tooley, 999.

Australian: $1750 (Approx. US $1826, Euro €1269) Quote ref.