Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ New Guinea and the South

New Guinea and the South Pacific

As with many maps by this famous mapmaker

It is one of the earliest collectable maps of Australia to not include the Asian continent or the rest of the world

(Austrialia del Espiritu Santo) discovered by Fernandes de Quiros in 1605

The continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders

Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ New Guinea and the SouthThe continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders. This map is based on the Freycinet map, the first full map of the Australian continent, published by the French in the year 1811, following the Baudin expedition of 1800 1803. It now shows all the latest discoveries: Bass Strait (Detroit de Bas), Torres Strait (Detroit de Torres), Spencers Gulf