Maps / Globes

ARROWSMITH, Aaron.
Chart of the Pacific Ocean...
London, Published Oct. 1st 1798 [additions to 1801], 0.

Double elephant folio atlas containing a set of nine engraved sheets each 670 x 870 mm., with elaborately engraved...

A superb copy, with the sheets that make up the map uncut at the edges, and bound onto stubs in a very large volume....

Tooley, 'Printed Maps of Australia', 60.

Australian: $28,500 (Approx. US $18,246, Euro €14,581) 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 $1184, Euro €946) Quote ref.

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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] ZATTA, Antonio.
Nuove Scoperte fatte nel 1765. 67. e 69 nel Mare del Sud Venezia.
Venice, presso Antonio Zatta, 1776.

Engraved map, 405 x 300 mm., original handcolouring; in excellent condition, framed.

First edition of the first decorative map to show Cook's tracks in the Pacific. It records discoveries made during the...

Clancy, 'Mapping of Terra Australis', p.101; Tooley, map 1431, plate 103.

Australian: $3600 (Approx. US $2305, Euro €1842) Quote ref.

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Globe gore depicting fragments of Australia.
Venice, circa 1688- 1699.

Engraved globe gore, 480 x 350 mm.; in fine condition, mounted.

Rare: a single globe gore by the great Venetian cartographer Coronelli showing the southern coast of Tasmania and the...

Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 537, Plate (B).

Australian: $4200 (Approx. US $2689, Euro €2149) Quote ref.

HONDIUS, Henricus.
India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes.
Amsterdam, 1649.

Engraved map, handcoloured, 390 x 482 mm.; in fine condition, mounted.

A fine early map, showing Dutch discoveries in northern Australia. The map-maker Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) inherited...

Tooley, 721.

Australian: $5850 (Approx. US $3745, Euro €2993) Quote ref.

JANSSON, Jan.
Indiæ Orientalis nova descriptio.
Amsterdam, J. Jansson, 1630.

390 x 500 mm., with central fold, with two compass roses and an attractive cartouche, early handcolouring; a very good...

A very good copy of this important and rare early map, the only early Dutch printed chart to show traces of Jansz's...

Clancy, Terra Australis Discovered, pp. 77-79; Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, pp. 104-105; Van der Krogt, I: 202 (79).

Australian: $6400 (Approx. US $4097, Euro €3274) Quote ref.

OTSUKI, Bankei.
Shinsei Yochi Zenzu [New Map of the World].
Edo [Tokyo], 1845.

Double-hemisphere map, woodblock print on paper with outline colouring mounted on linen scroll, 304 x 1220 mm.; a fine...

This very attractive double-hemisphere scroll map, surrounded with extensive calligraphic text, was prepared by Otsuki...

Australian: $3850 (Approx. US $2465, Euro €1970) Quote ref.

[VICTORIA].
Philips’ New Series of Travelling Maps. Victoria with Index (cover title).
London & Liverpool, George Philip & Son, c. 1885.

Slim octavo pocketbook map, map disected and mounted on linen, 655 x 540 mm., printed index; in the original red cloth...

An attractive pocket map from Philips' New Series of Travelling Maps, showing late nineteenth-century...

Australian: $725 (Approx. US $464, Euro €371) Quote ref.