Carte reduite des terres Australes
Circa: 1753
Price: $2,500
BELLIN, Jacques Nicholas # 348 Carte reduite des terres Australes. Gereduceerde Kaart van’t Zuid-land. [Amsterdam? : c. 1760]. Copperplate engraving, 192 x 253mm., original folds, fine. The scarce Dutch version of Bellin’s famous map of Australia, the projected Eastern coastline joining the charted territories of Van Diemen’s Land and Carpentaria. First published in Prevost’s voyages in French in 1753, later German, Danish and Dutch editions followed. Tooley 157.