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Facsimiles of old charts of Australia now in the British Museum [cartographic material] : reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of that Institution
Bib ID 1819777
Format MapMap
Author British Museum. Map Room
Description London : Trubner & Co., 1885. 
13 p., 8 of maps ; 62x90 cm. 
Full contents Chart 1. A large chart of the world ... probably executed in the time of Francis I of France, for his son the Dauphin, afterwards Henry II ... - Chart 2. Map of world, faites a Arques par Pierres Desceliers P[res]b[yte]re lan 1550 - Chart 3 is Chart 10 in John Rotz, his book of hydrography, entitled "Chart of the Indian Ocean, from Cape Comorin on the west to Aimoey Bay in China on the east, and from 25 degrees north to 19 degrees south, including Lytil Java - Chart 4 is Chart 20 in John Rotz, his book of hydrography entitled "The eastern and western hemispheres" 
Notes

Produced under the direction, and at the expense of the Trustees of the Free Public Library, Sydney, New South Wales, the Trustees of the Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne [and] the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.

2 copies, copy 1 brittle paper.

Subjects World maps - Early works to 1800.  |  Nautical charts - Early works to 1800.  |  Australia - Maps.