Limited Edition Map of Australia. Hollandia Nova - Terra Australis by Emanuel Bowen.  E-mail this product to a friend

Limited Edition of an important map charting early Australia.
The first English publication of a map of Australia by itself (not as part of a world map or map of Asia or Pacific).
A fine numbered Limited Edition reproduction ( of 750) taken from Emanuel Bowen's original copperplate-engraved map published in 1744. Bowen's map was an English version of the 1664 map published by the French traveller and author of interesting discoveries, Melchisedec Thevenot. This chart of Australia is especially interesting because of the captions Bowen added in the areas where land had not been discovered. These captions emphasize the care taken when transposing the information to hand, and also detail exploration being undertaken during the period. This map of Australia was published 26 years prior to Captain Cook's charting of the east coast; the culmination of his search for the 'great south land'.

Size of this fine map to its border is 460mm x 590mm (18" x 23.25"). Print size is 520mm x 650mm.

[This Limited Edition chart is also available (and listed above), as printed, in black and white]