CABINET OF DISCOVERIES

Das Austral-Continent oder Neu Holland nach Krusenstern, King..(etc)

Antique map of the Australia continent ( with insets of NSW,Port Jackson,Melville Is,S Aust Colony)by CF Weiland  from an atlas by the Weimar Geographisches Institut, 1858 .

475x575mm;

Original  colour;  Excllent condition

$A400

Asiatische Archipel und Neu Holland

Antique engraved map of Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia and other islands.  With inset maps of the settlements in NSW and Swan River.  Interesting in that Australia is shown with each section of the coast a different colour, which according to the key would show possessions of several different European powers.   Plate number 15 from  Myers Zeitungs und Groschen-Atlas, Bibliograph. Instituts zu Hildburghausen  1849 .

198 x 266 mm;

Original hand colour  ; condition very good; light spotting of margins

$A175

Specialkarte von Australien  1: 3,500,000 

Antique egraved map of the Australian continent  (in 9 sheets) by A Petermann   from an atlas by Justus Perthes, Gotha 1875.

Each sheet 330x400mm

Original hand colour. Very good condition:  minor browning of edges. 

$A1200

A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Australia including Van Diemens Land and New Zealand as mapped by Tasman.

With ornate cartouche and two blocks of text.  By Emmanuel Bowen (after Thevenot) From John Harris, Navigatium atque Iternerantium Bibliotheca, London 1744

Image size 372x489mm(14 5/8 x18 7/8 in)

Uncoloured. Good condition. Right hand bottom corner of margin missing (with no loss of printed surface) Skilful repairs to bottom margin. Left margins skillfully reinforced. No text on verso

$A8000

 Tabula Indiae Orientalis et Regnorum Adjacentium.

By Jan van Braam & G. onder den Linden. From Francois Valentijn’s Oude en neu Oost Indien 1724-26. Tooley 1268.

507 x 677 mm.

Full contemporary colouring. Good condition with minor soiling and marginal fraying; paper slightly brittle.

$A3750

Moluccae Insulae Celeberimae

Engraved antique map by Guiliem Blaeu  1640. Coversthe Moluccas Islands, the fabled spice islands of the East Indies (off the coast of Halmahera, Indonesia)

375x486mm

Gorgeous original  colour. Condition: very good  few insignificant brown spots, some creases at centrefold, repaired wormhold at margins

$A1000

Royaume du Grand Mogol..

Antique engraved map of northern India from Golconda to Afghanistan and eastwards to Bengal, by Pierre vander Aa, Leiden c1740.

290 x 347 mm

Original outline hand colour; condition good with a clean bright impression. Faint yellow stain in centre; a repair to the lower margin has caused some creasing,   $A225

Sinus Gangeticus; vulgo Golfo di Bengala

Antique engraved map of the Bay of Bengal, showing Ceylon, the east coast of India, the whole of Burma and the west coast of the Malay peninsula.  North oriented to the right.  Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by Joannes Janssonius ca.1700.

530 x 460 mm.

Figurative cartouche and scale of miles uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Very good condition ( the discoloration on the centerfold is exaggerated in the photo).

$A 1200

Carte des Indes et de la Chine

Antique engraved map of India and China by Guillaume de L’isle from an atlas by Covens and Mortier c 1720.  Includes all of south, east and south-east Asia. 

600 x 620 mm

Uncoloured; very good condition, cut close to plate-mark and folds as bound. Minor reinforcement of centre fold.  $A 1200

Indien & Inner-Asien in 2 Blaettern

Antique engraved map of India by A Petermann, plate number 63 from Stieler’s Hand-atlas published by Justius Perthes, Gotha 1875. Includes the whole Indian subcontinent from Sindh to the Burmese border, with inset maps of Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta and Madras (Chennai) and Galle Point, with all the administrative sub-divisions, princely states shown. 

345 x 415 mm

Lithographed colour; condition very good, light overall browning.   $A 175