World Map, from Malham’s Naval Gazetteer, showing Botany Bay, 1795
$780.00 AUD
Early world map featuring New Holland, showing the colony of Botany Bay, plus charting the three voyages of James Cook, titled :
”A General Chart of the World on Mercator’s Projection, exhibiting all the New Discoveries and the Tracks of the different Circum-Navigators.
Engraved for Malham’s Naval Gazetteer.”
Lower right: “Engraved by S.J.Neele 352 Strand”
Some original colouring, with yellow border, blue ocean rims, names picked out in red.
Printed 1795
46x34cm visible
Condition: fair, mounted onto card, open fold splits with some wear, some staining, tear evident lower right quarter fold.
Framed.
This world map by Neele appeared in the Rev. John Malham’s ‘Naval Gazetteer’, published 1795-6 by Allan & West, London.
The fledgling colony in ‘New South Wales’ was just 7 years old when this was printed.
A Notable feature is the centring of the map on the Pacific, rather than Atlantic Ocean. This was in order to include the tracks of the great voyages of exploration by James Cook; it identifies the tracks of his voyages aboard Endeavour, the Resolution and Adventure, and his final voyage with Resolution and Discovery. There is a notation of his death on Hawaii. There is a further expedition noted: John Phipps’ 1773 voyage aboard the HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass, an attempt at finding the elusive northwest passage.
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