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Auction archive: Lot number 140

[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas (1703-1772).] Carte Reduite Des Mers Comprises Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique Apelées par les Navigateurs Mer Du Sud ou Pacifique . Paris: Dépôt de la Marine, 1776.

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,500
ca. US$1,907 - US$3,179
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 140

[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas (1703-1772).] Carte Reduite Des Mers Comprises Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique Apelées par les Navigateurs Mer Du Sud ou Pacifique . Paris: Dépôt de la Marine, 1776.

Estimate
£1,500 - £2,500
ca. US$1,907 - US$3,179
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas-(1703-1772).] Carte Reduite Des Mers Comprises Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique Apelées par les Navigateurs Mer Du Sud ou Pacifique . Paris: Dépôt de la Marine, 1776. Important sea chart showing the opening up of the Pacific Ocean and the discoveries of Australasia immediately prior to the great voyages of Bougainville and Cook. Originally issued in 1742, this fine chart, issued by the French Dépôt de la Marine, depicts a Pacific world with California correctly shown as a peninsula, a fairly accurate Far East Asia, and a view of Australasia showing the discoveries of various Dutch explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Abel Tasman. However, the discoveries of the explorers Samuel Wallis, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook (whose voyages had been completed by this publication date) have yet to be added, so the depiction of the Australian continent is distorted, with imagined dotted coastlines joining Tasmania and New Guinea with the mainland. The west coast of New Zealand emerges unformed from a vast Pacific which is dotted with mostly imaginary islands, although the Marquesas Islands and Vanuatu are accurately shown. Tooley Australia 154. Engraved map on 2 joined sheets, coloured by a contemporary hand, verso blank, large title cartouche within rococo frame, grid lines of latitude and longitude, together with intersecting rhumb lines, stamp of Dépôt de la Marine and price of 'Trente Sols' to lower left, 585 x 855mm (plate mark), 650 x 892mm (sheet).

Auction archive: Lot number 140
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

[BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas-(1703-1772).] Carte Reduite Des Mers Comprises Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique Apelées par les Navigateurs Mer Du Sud ou Pacifique . Paris: Dépôt de la Marine, 1776. Important sea chart showing the opening up of the Pacific Ocean and the discoveries of Australasia immediately prior to the great voyages of Bougainville and Cook. Originally issued in 1742, this fine chart, issued by the French Dépôt de la Marine, depicts a Pacific world with California correctly shown as a peninsula, a fairly accurate Far East Asia, and a view of Australasia showing the discoveries of various Dutch explorers, including Willem Janszoon and Abel Tasman. However, the discoveries of the explorers Samuel Wallis, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and James Cook (whose voyages had been completed by this publication date) have yet to be added, so the depiction of the Australian continent is distorted, with imagined dotted coastlines joining Tasmania and New Guinea with the mainland. The west coast of New Zealand emerges unformed from a vast Pacific which is dotted with mostly imaginary islands, although the Marquesas Islands and Vanuatu are accurately shown. Tooley Australia 154. Engraved map on 2 joined sheets, coloured by a contemporary hand, verso blank, large title cartouche within rococo frame, grid lines of latitude and longitude, together with intersecting rhumb lines, stamp of Dépôt de la Marine and price of 'Trente Sols' to lower left, 585 x 855mm (plate mark), 650 x 892mm (sheet).

Auction archive: Lot number 140
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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