Map Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057
Catalogue Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3413032
APA Citation
Rotz, Jean. & Desceliers, Pierre, & Morgan, E. Delmar & British Museum. 1891 Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles) http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057
MLA Citation
Rotz, Jean. and Desceliers, Pierre, and Morgan, E. Delmar and British Museum. Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles) 1891 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057>
Australian Citation
Rotz, Jean. & Desceliers, Pierre, & Morgan, E. Delmar & British Museum. 1891, Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles) <http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057>
Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles)
| Bib ID | 3413032 |
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| Format |
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| Online Versions | http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057 |
| Scale | Scale not given. |
| Description |
[England : British Museum, 1891?]
6 maps : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.+ explanatory notes (4 p. ; 33 x 54 cm.) |
| Full contents | General outline of the coast / by Jean Rotz, 1542 -- Northern part of continent (reversed) / by Jean Rotz, 1542 -- The Dauphin map (two parts) / by Pierre Desceliers, 1546 -- Pierre Desceliers' large mappemonde (two parts) dated 1550. |
| Notes |
Facsimiles from originals in the British Museum. Published to accompany E.D. Morgan's Remarks on the early discovery of Australia which was presented at the International Geography Congress, 1891 at Berne in Switzerland. Maps by Jean Rotz reduced from his original atlas in Ms. Department, British Museum, Photo Praetorius. Other maps are reduced facsimiles of part of Descelier's map of the world. Accompanied by explanatory notes: Early charts of Australia (from The Sydney Morning Herald, April 15, 1886). Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057 Library does not hold The Dauphin map (2 parts). |
| Subjects |
Australia - Maps - Early works to 1800 - Facsimiles.
| Australia - 1542-1550 - Maps.
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| Other Authors |
Rotz, Jean
| Desceliers, Pierre, 1487-1553
| Morgan, E. Delmar (Edward Delmar), 1840-1909
| British Museum
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| Also Titled |
Manuscript maps showing Australia |
| Collect from: | Maps Reading Room, Lower Ground 1 |
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| Call Number: | MAP RM 2057 |
| Status: | Available |
| Items/Issues Held: | Sheet 1 (Title page) Sheet 2 (Explanatory notes) Sheet 3 Sheet 4 Sheet 5 Sheet 6 |
| Details | Collect From | |
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| MAP RM 2057 | Maps Reading Room, Lower Ground 1 |
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