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Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles)
Bib ID 3413032
Format MapMap, OnlineOnline
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.
Other Authors Rotz, Jean  |  Desceliers, Pierre, 1487-1553  |  Morgan, E. Delmar (Edward Delmar), 1840-1909  |  British Museum
Also Titled Manuscript maps showing Australia

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