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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
29-Nov-2020
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Description:
Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [1703-1772], Carte reduite des terres Australes, Par le Sr. Bellin, Ingr. De la marine de la Societe Royale de Londres && ca. 1753, 22 x 29.5 cm (plate size)., original copperplate-engraved map of a Reduced chart of the Southern Lands by Jacques Nicolas Bellin published in Holland circa 1760. Bellin used a dotted line for his theories of the East coast of Australia, joining van Diemen's land to Espiritu Santu (New Hebrides) and Papua New Guinea and New Britain. In French, along this imagined coast Bellin wrote 'I suppose that the land of Diemen could join with the land of the holy Ghost but (this is) without proof'. In this version, the statements are also translated into Dutch.
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Category:
Unclassified