b'67MAPS312BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772]Carte reduite des terres Australes pour servir a lhistoire des voyages / par le Sr. Bellin, Ing. de la marine de la Societe Royale de Londres & ca. 1753; 22 x 29.5cm (plate size).Original copperplate-engraved map of a Reduced Chart of the Southern Lands by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for Prevosts LHistoire Generale des Voyages (General History of Voyages) published in Paris in 1753. Published nearly 20 years prior to Cooks discovery of the east coast in 1770, Bellin used a dotted line for his theories of the east coast of Australia, joining Van Diemens Land to Espiritu Santu (New Hebrides) and Papua New Guinea and New Britain. In French, along this imagined coast Bellin wrote I suppose that the land of Diemen could join with the land of the Holy Ghost but313(this is) without proof. 313 The outline of Australia is nearly $1,2501,500 AUSTRALASIA. complete, but still with Unknown Drawn under the direction of Mr.Parts around modern day Cooktown Pinkerton by L. Hebert. Neele sculpt.in Carpentaria and the coast of South 352 Strand. London: published AprilAustralia; and there is no detail away from 15th. 1813, by Cadell & Davies, Strand &the coast; parts of the New Guinea coast Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown,are speculative and, in New Zealand, the Paternoster Row. 56 x 82cm; framed andBanks Peninsula is shown as an island.glazed. (60 x 86cm overall). $500750312'