1683 Mallet Antique Map of Australia Cape York Peninsula Gulf of Carpenteria PNG India par M de la Condamine

par M de la Condamine

ostensibly to take up the East Indies post

Archaic-period temple of Poseidon on the site was built of tufa

At an early period he was engaged in buccaneer expeditions to the South Seas and in 1703 joined in with the expedition of famed privateer and explorer William Dampier

Size: 13in x 9 1/2in (330mm x 240mm)

1683 Mallet Antique Map of Australia Cape York Peninsula Gulf of Carpenteria PNG India par M de la CondamineTitle : Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie Ref #: 50601 Size: 8in x 6in (205mm x 152mm) Date : 1682 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This hand coloured original antique very early map of Cape York Peninsula, the Gulf of Carpenteria and New Guinea depicted before the Torres Strait was charted was published as part of the 1683 edition of Alain Manesson Mallet's 1630 1706 Description de l' Univers. Background: The first detailed published map to