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Single sheet (15 4/8 x 19 6/8 inches). A fine engraved map of "Hollandia Nova" - "Terra Australis" by Emanuel Bowen after Abel Tasman, showing most of the western and southern coastline of Australia, with the title within a fine asymmetrical rococo cartouche lower left, two panels of explanatory text to the left (a few discreet repaired tears, paper replacements to margins, center fold strengthened). THE FIRST MAP DEDICATED TO AUSTRALIA IN ENGLISH A bright and attractive copy of Tasman's "New Holland" "A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Surveyed by Capt. Abel Tasman & Depicted by Order of the East India Company in Holland in the Stadt House at Amsterdam", and as such is the first separate depiction of Australia in English. From the second edition of John Harris's "Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, a Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels", first published without Bowen's maps in 1705. Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603?-1659), mariner, was born at Lutjegast, near Groningen, in the Netherlands. In 1642 he was "appointed to command two ships to explore southern and eastern waters. Sailing in August he discovered Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand, the Tonga Islands and some of the Fiji group, and re-explored part of the north coast of New Guinea. On his return to Batavia in June 1643 he was chosen to take part in an expedition to form a settlement in the Tonga Islands from which the Chilean coast was to be raided; while this expedition was preparing, he was ordered to find whether there was a passage into the South Sea between Carpentaria and De Witt's Land. For this purpose he set out with three vessels at the end of January 1644 and, following the coasts from Cape Valsche round to Cape Cloates, satisfied himself that, except perhaps at Endeavour Strait, there was no passage. He was rewarded after his return in August 1644 by confirmation in the grade of commandeur, with a substantial increase in pay dated back to the beginning of his voyage in 1642" (J. W. Forsyth for the Australian Dictionary of Biography). Tasman's map of New Holland was first published in Melchisedech Thevenot's "Relations de divers voyages curieux" in 1663 and then revised until 1696. "Thevenot ensured that his book included maps at every juncture. Of the many maps, plans and drawings in the work, the map of New Holland/Terra Australia is perhaps the most politically charged. The map shows 'Hollandia Nova, detecta 1644' (New Holland, revealed 1644), consigned to the western side of the continent. A vast undescribed expanse between New Guinea, New Zealand and Van Dieman's Land, is give the French appellation 'Terre Australe, decouverte l'an 1644' (Terra Australia, discovered 1644). Thevenot divided the continent in two at longitude 135 E. The line separating 'Hollandia Nova' and "Terre Australe' correlated to the western limit of Spanish claims in the South Pacific arising from the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494. Thevenot was essentially reusing the Spanish boundary to open up the land east of New Holland to French interests. In effect, he was signalling what many in the French administration were then advocating : that France should emulate the Dutch in ensuring that the fledgling French East India Company had access to foreign markets. when the British government drew up the boundaries of the colony of New South Wales in 1788, it set the western limit at the meridian of 135 degrees east of Greenwich, just as it appeared o Thevenot's " (Martin Woods for "Mapping our World: Terra Incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, page 143). Hill 775; Sabin 30483.
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