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Prints — Maps - Art - Charles Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House: Charles Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.
Number of lots recorded: 12
Lots with images: 12
Prices available: 12
Category: Prints - Maps




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Lot Description Price Image
*** 'J. McDouall Stuart's Explorations across the Continent of Australia, with charts, 1861-62' by John McDouall Stuart [Melbourne, 1863], with large fold-out map, worn original cloth-backed card boards. ***
*** Australia: 'Southern Hemisphere', hand-coloured engraved map, by William Faden, Geographer to the King and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales [London, 1802], with Australia named 'New Holland', shows Bass's Strait, though south coast of Australia from Western Port (Victoria) to St.Peter Island (Sth Aust) left blank, window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 93 x 93 cm Superb condition. [Tooley 560]. ***
*** 'A Chart of the Discoveries made in the South Sea, or Pacific Ocean, previous to Ad 1579. And shewing the opinions entertained by the Geographers of that period, concerning the existence of Lands in the parts which had not been explored', hand-coloured engraved map, by James Burney [London, 1803], showing the huge southern landmass titled 'Terra Australis Nondum Cognita', window mounted, overall 56 x 44 cm Condition A-. ***
*** Holy Land: Sanson-Jaillot: 'Judea seu Terra Sancta, Quae Hebraeorum sive Israelitarum Terra' [Amsterdam, 1696], hand-coloured engraved map, elaborate cartouches, one showing Adam & Eve in Garden of Eden, other with Moses, window mounted, overall 100 x 70 cm ***
*** 'Fiji Islands, From the Surveys of Captain H.M.Denham Rn Frs 1854-6, Lieutenant W.U.Moore and G.E.Richards Rn 1876-82', hand-coloured engraved map, published at the Admiralty 17th July 1879 (with corrections to 1894) [London], overall 101 x 69 cm A stunning map in fine condition. ***
*** 'A Chart of Captn. Carteret's Discoveries at New Britain, with part of Captn. Cook's Passage thro Endeavour Streights & of Captn. Dampiers Tract & Discoviers in 1699 & 1700 at New Guinea & New Britain', engraved map published by Alexander Hogg [London, 1780]; mounted together with 'Nova Hibernia', also published by Hogg [London, 1780], overall 52 x 60 cm (2 maps) ***
*** 'Australia East Coast - Broken Bay, surveyed by Capt Drinkwater Bethune Cb and Capt J.Lort Stokes Rn in HMSs Conway and Acheron', hand-coloured engraved map, published at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty Feby 28th 1853 [London], window mounted, framed & glazed, overall 92 x 79 cm Fine condition. ***
*** Asia: 'Carte d'une Partie du Grand Archipel D'Asie', by Louis Claude Freycinet [Paris, 1809], lovely detailed map of Timor & Flores, window mounted, overall 43 x 37 cm Condition A. [Tooley 654]. ***
*** New Guinea: 'Carte des decouvertes du Capne. Carteret dans la Nle. Bretagne, avec une partie du passage du Capne. Cook a travers Les Detroits Endeavour, et de la Route et des Decouvertes du Capne. Dampierre dans la Nle. Guinee et la Nle Bretagne en 1699 et 1700', engraved map published in the French edition of Cook's Voyages [Paris, 1774-89], window mounted, overall 79 x 39 cm ***
*** Australia: Geelong District: Borhoneyghurk, Subdivision for Sale by Public Auction, 17th December 1912, 1754 Acres, showing map of subdivision, overall 38 x 51 cm ***
*** Mallacoota: 1920 real estate poster, 'Crown Lands, Sale By Auction Township of Mallacoota, Parish of Mallacoota', with plan of subdivision & locality map. Folded, otherwise superb condition, overall 59 x 88 cm ***
*** Christmas Island: 'Christmas Island, Discovered in the Ships Resolution and Discovery 1777' by Captain Cook, from the English edition of Cook's Voyages [London, c1784], attractive engraved map, overall 28 x 23 cm ***

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