b'139931UNKNOWN CARTOGRAPHER/ARCHITECT:BORNEO. MANUSCRIPT PLAN of a fort with surrounding islands,pen and ink in colour,34 x 27cm.A mid 18th century French fortification plan, with buildings inside a construction of polygon borders, showing a landmass to the north (labelled S. Piere en Borneo) and three sailing ships on the river.$300500932CLAUDE BUY de MORNAS (d.1783),Climats DHeures et de Mois,[Paris, Louis Charles Desnos, 1761],hand-coloured circular map of the Eastern hemisphere within a decorative frame and with text934panels describing the worlds climate zones.52 x 66cm (sheet size).This example with remarkable decorative borders found only in the deluxe edition. Cooks charting of the east coast of Australia is still in the future.$500750933ENGLISH COUNTY MAPS including Durham, Glamorganshire, Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, South Wales, etc. (8); various publishers, late 18th - mid-19th Century.$150250 934LA PEROUSE,Carte DUne Partie Du Grand Ocean a lE. et S.E. de la Nouvelle Guinee pour lintelligence du Voyage935de la Fregate Espagnole la Princesa commandee par D. Franco. Antonio Maurelle. en 1781. 936[Paris, 1797], from the Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse, LOUIS de FREYCINET41.5 x 59cm (sheet size). Carte Generale de la Terre de Diemen, Comprenant les A chart of part of the south-western Pacific, showing thedecouvertes et les travaux Geographiques executes dans routes taken by the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Antoniocette partie a borde des Corvettes le Geographe le Naturaliste Maurelle in 1781, along the northern coast of New Guineaet la Goelette le Casuarina Redigee Par L Freycinet . . . 1808,and across the Pacific to Fiji and Tonga. The map includes copper engraving with hand-coloured highlights,the north-eastern coast of Australia, and parts of the coastsheet size 84 x 56cm.of New Guinea. La Perouse had set sail from France inThe title, in an oval cartouche explains that the chart was 1785 to continue the discoveries of Captain Cook. He wasdrafted by Freycinet. It also mentions the names of the ships shipwrecked in 1788 but his narrative, maps, and viewsinvolved in taking observations for the chart, which include the survived and were published in 1797. 29-foot Casaurina, which was bought so that its commander, $500750 Freycinet himself, could take careful inshore measurements. The Baudin expedition had two larger ships, the aptly-named 935 Geographe and the Naturaliste. The chart contains little adornment besides the cartouche; it was meant to clearly LA PEROUSE, communicate the extensive survey undertaken by the French CARTE DU GRAND OCEAN OU MER DU SUD, despite the presence of another British voyage, that of the large-format copper engraving, British Royal Naval officer Matthew Flinders, which was also [Paris, 1797], Map No.3 from La Perouses Atlas, surveying Australia in the first years of the nineteenth century.58 x 83cm (sheet size). $300500 $500750'