Item #M10776 New Holland and Asiatic Isles. John Thomson.

New Holland and Asiatic Isles.

Edinburgh: 1814. Notes: Large map of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, covering Fiji, the Solomons, Papua New Guinea, Timor and the Celebs.
Australia, which had finally been circumnavigated just a few years before by Matthew Flinders, is a vastly empty territory called New Holland in the West and New South Wales in the East. Australia would not become the official name for the continent until 1824.
The map depicts geographical features and names and includes explorers who found which areas.
, Size : 498x616 (mm), 19.61x24.25 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Asia South East Indonesia & Papua New Guinea; Maps Pacific;. Very Good. Item #M10776

Notes: Large map of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, covering Fiji, the Solomons, Papua New Guinea, Timor and the Celebs.
Australia, which had finally been circumnavigated just a few years before by Matthew Flinders, is a vastly empty territory called New Holland in the West and New South Wales in the East. Australia would not become the official name for the continent until 1824.
The map depicts geographical features and names and includes explorers who found which areas.
, Size : 498x616 (mm), 19.61x24.25 (Inches), Coloring: Original Hand Coloring, Category: Maps Asia South East Indonesia & Papua New Guinea; Maps Pacific;.

Price: $575.00

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