Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande Ready to hang with hanging

Ready to hang with hanging hardware included

the Spanish had suppressed his report in the hope of maintaining power via geographic secrecy and its existence was only confirmed by Cook on this first voyage in 1770

based on Cook's map of the region

It is one of the earliest collectable maps of Australia to not include the Asian continent or the rest of the world

First discovered by the Dutch navigator

Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande Ready to hang with hangingEven in the mid eighteenth century the complete outline of the Australian continent was only guessed at. Southern Tasmania was firmly on the map but the connection between it and the known South West coast was fanciful. This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (Van Deimen's Land, the West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula). The