b'78MAPS497Tasmania, hand coloured lithograph showing 18 former counties of Tasmania, scale: 5 miles to 1 inch,74 x 52cm$200300 498Kaart van Oost Indie from the rare Dutch editionof William Dampiers A New Voyage Round the World [The Hague, 1698]; engraver unknown.size 29 x 17cm.$300400498499DELISLE, Guillaume [1675 - 1726] 501 Hemisphere meridional pour voir plusBELLIN, Jacques Nicolas, 1776 distinctement les Terres Australes. . Carte Reduite des Mers Comprises Entre lAsie et lAmerique [Paris, 1714] Apelees par les Navigateurs Mer du Sud ou Mer Pacifique. ;49 x 66cm (visible sheet size) some outline hand-colouring. Paris, 1776, 63 x 89cm.Map of the South Pole showing what was then known ofThe chart focuses on the South Pacific, extending to China, Korea Australia and New Zealand and nothing of Antarctica. Guillaume& Japan in the northwest and to Virginia and California in the de lIsles well deserved reputation as one of the foremostnortheast. Place names are given along the coasts, while the geographers of the 18th century meant that his maps wereinteriors are left almost entirely blank. This map was published influential for many years after his death. He eradicated,after Captain Cooks second voyage and includes depictions as much as possible, imaginary geography in his maps. of the western coast of New Zealand, the northern coastline $300500of Australia, and portions of New Guinea. Tasmania is shown with a dotted conjectural coastline connecting it to Australia.500 $1,0001,500BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] Carte reduite des terres Australes pour servir a lhistoire des502voyages / par le Sr. Bellin, Ing. de la marine de la SocieteBELLIN, Jacques NicolasRoyale de Londres & ca. 1753; 22 x 29.5cm (plate size).Essay dune Carte Reduite Contenant les Original copperplate-engraved map of a Reduced Chart ofparties connuees Du Globe Terrestrethe Southern Lands by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for Prevosts[Paris, 1778, although dated 1748 in error]LHistoire Generale des Voyages (General History of Voyages)52 x 72cm (plate size); hand coloured copper engraving.published in Paris in 1753. Published nearly 20 years prior toThis large beautifully hand coloured map on Mercators Cooks discovery of the east coast in 1770, Bellin used aProjection was first engraved in 1748 by Jacques Nicolas dotted line for his theories of the east coast of Australia, joiningBellin, dated in the title, and was updated to 1770 showing Van Diemens Land to Espiritu Santu (New Hebrides) and Papuathe discoveries by Captain Cook in Australia & New Zealand New Guinea and New Britain. In French, along this imaginedin 1769-1770. In the Pacific, various Polynesian Island coast Bellin wrote I suppose that the land of Diemen couldgroups are noted though many are slightly or significantly join with the land of the Holy Ghost but (this is) without proof. misplaced. Hawaii, as yet undiscovered, is absent.$1,2501,500$7501,000501'