23478 Paris, 1808 - 1812. Two hand-coloured engraved maps on one sheet, each 11 x 17 cms., no foxing, very good condition. Framed and glazed. Baudin was the first European navigator to explore the region between Port Phillip Bay in Victoria and Encounter Bay in SA. The top map of these two (Portland) can, therefore, rightfully be named with French place names. However, the lower map shows an area round present-day Ceduna, which was first charted by Flinders a year before Baudin. Mapmaker Freycinet therefore had no right to bestow coast and islands with the names of Bonaparte's family. An interesting historical "what might have been...". Tooley ref no. 615. $295.00AUD
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