NEW SOUTH WALES Map entitled 'Carte d'une partie de la cote Orientale de la Nouvelle Holland comprenant Botany-bay', [by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Charles-Pierre Boullanger], autograph manuscript on two pieces of joined paper, ink wash and crayon, grid in pencil in central section, border and lettering in ink with a decorative watercolour cartouche in lower right-hand corner containing title and attributes including aboriginal spears, shield, native vegetation and a snake. (Weakness to lower part of central fold not affecting details of map) 17 7/8 x 27½in. (45.5 x 70cm.), Sydney, 1801-2 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAPS OF SYDNEY IN PRIVATE HANDS The attribution to Lesueur (and Boullanger) is made by comparison with a map (16074.2) in the Lesueur collection at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre which is reproduced in Bonnemains, p.106. This is entitled 'Plan de la Ville de Sydney' but is considerably smaller, measuring only 8¼ x 11 3/8in. (21 x 29cm.). Six of the placenames on the map have been altered in pencil in a French hand not unlike that of Freycinet (e.g. 'Hacking' for 'Halking', 'Castle-hill' for 'Castel hill', 'Parramatta' for 'Paramata') and three references have been added in crayon. One inscription refers to the journeys of Bass and Hunter. The information contained in the map show similarities with the Grimes and Flinders map of 1799 and it is reasonable to assume that their map was well known to both Lesueur and Boullanger. This map by Lesueur and Boullanger is the original manuscript for plate 29b in the Baudin Atlas , the title of which indicates that the information used is partly after 'the English maps'. The editorial note in pencil directs that this is to be included in 'the description and studies' of Louis Freycinet on the Uranie , suggesting that it was to be studied by Freycinet before he left France in 1817. The corrections in his hand have been added after his return in 1826.
NEW SOUTH WALES Map entitled 'Carte d'une partie de la cote Orientale de la Nouvelle Holland comprenant Botany-bay', [by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur and Charles-Pierre Boullanger], autograph manuscript on two pieces of joined paper, ink wash and crayon, grid in pencil in central section, border and lettering in ink with a decorative watercolour cartouche in lower right-hand corner containing title and attributes including aboriginal spears, shield, native vegetation and a snake. (Weakness to lower part of central fold not affecting details of map) 17 7/8 x 27½in. (45.5 x 70cm.), Sydney, 1801-2 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAPS OF SYDNEY IN PRIVATE HANDS The attribution to Lesueur (and Boullanger) is made by comparison with a map (16074.2) in the Lesueur collection at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre which is reproduced in Bonnemains, p.106. This is entitled 'Plan de la Ville de Sydney' but is considerably smaller, measuring only 8¼ x 11 3/8in. (21 x 29cm.). Six of the placenames on the map have been altered in pencil in a French hand not unlike that of Freycinet (e.g. 'Hacking' for 'Halking', 'Castle-hill' for 'Castel hill', 'Parramatta' for 'Paramata') and three references have been added in crayon. One inscription refers to the journeys of Bass and Hunter. The information contained in the map show similarities with the Grimes and Flinders map of 1799 and it is reasonable to assume that their map was well known to both Lesueur and Boullanger. This map by Lesueur and Boullanger is the original manuscript for plate 29b in the Baudin Atlas , the title of which indicates that the information used is partly after 'the English maps'. The editorial note in pencil directs that this is to be included in 'the description and studies' of Louis Freycinet on the Uranie , suggesting that it was to be studied by Freycinet before he left France in 1817. The corrections in his hand have been added after his return in 1826.
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