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Carte reduite de la Mer du Sud : pour servir a l'Histoire generale des voyages

Date
1753-01-01
Subject
Category
Author
Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Publisher
Chez Didot
Creator
Prévost, Abbé
Current holder
Series number
MAP NK 2456/45
Item number
SD_ILS:1250530
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
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Description from source
Full title: Carte reduite de la Mer du Sud : pour servir a l’Histoire generale des voyages / par M. Bellin Ingr. de la marine, et de la Societe Roye. de Londres.

1 map ; plate dimensions 20.5 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 26 x 38 cm.

“Tome XI No. 9”–Lower right.
From: Prevost d’exiles, Antoine Francois. Histoire generale des voyages … Paris, Chez Didot, 1746-1761. Vol 11.
Prime meridian: Isle de Fer.

Map of the Pacific Ocean. Australia is attached to New Guinea and Tasmania attached to the mainland. The east coast is entirely imaginary. New Zealand includes only its western coast in an incomplete fashion. This map is remarkable in its historical significance, timed only a few years before the commencement of an intense campaign by the English and the French to explore and map Oceania and the South Pacific.
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Place of Publication
Paris
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