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Map, Australia, Cassini, c1801, With Cook's Discoveries, Hand Coloured Reproduction #2
Map, Australia, Cassini, c1801, With Cook's Discoveries, Hand Coloured Reproduction #2
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Map, La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea (New Holland and New Guinea: Australia and Papua New Guinea). Italian map of Australia, Cassini, c1801, Reproduction with beautiful later hand colouring
Date: 1801
Cartographer: Cassini Giovanni Maria
Publisher: Calografia Camerale, for Cassini’s Atlas, Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale.
Paper Size: 455 x 650mm
Print Size: 500 x 365mm
Condition: Good
Technique: Copperplate Engraving
Price: $250
Description: Very good map with later hand colouring
Provenance:
La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea (New Holland and New Guinea: Australia and Papua New Guinea).
Heritage Editions reproduction of an Italian map of Australia by Cassini. an uncoloured reproduction production of an important and rarely seen copperplate-engraved map by Giovanni Maria Cassini, who flourished as a mapmaker between 1776 and 1884. Incorporating Captain Cook’s charting of the east coast of Australia, it was originally published in Rome circa 1801 by Calografia Camerale, for Cassini’s atlas, Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale.
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