Océanique. Partie de la Nlle. Galles du Sud. No. 55
[Brussells, P.M.G. Vandermaelen, 1827].
A lithographed map (printed surface 471 × 547 mm, sheet size 533 × 665 mm) printed in black and blue.
Vertical centrefold crease, as issued; remnants of hinge mounts and an old guard on the verso; paper lightly tanned and foxed; in excellent condition.
Plate 55 from Vandermaelen's monumental 'Atlas Universel', showing the New South Wales coast from around Batemans Bay to the Solitary Islands. Sydney, the Blue Mountains and hinterland are shown, including much of the Lachlan River. Vandermaelen's atlas was 'the first world atlas on a uniform scale. The sixth volume covered "Océanique" and it included seventeen maps of Australia. All the sheets were made on the same scale and projection, and they were so constructed that they could form a globe of about 1000 gores, 7.775 metres in diameter' (Clancy: 'The Mapping of Terra Australis', 1995).
Item #143929
Price (AUD):
$350.00