A French chart of Australia and New Zealand showing the discoveries made by Cook in 1770, during his first voyage and the discoveries made by Capt. Furneaux in Tasmania in 1773. Australia is…[more]

This chart shows the extent of Cook's discoveries and exploration of New Zealand during his first voyage to the pacific (1768-1771). It was the first complete map of New Zealand though this…[more]

Though this appears to be a map of the world it’s actual objective is to illustrate Australia’s (New Holland) distance from England and the track that is planned to be taken by the First Fleet on…[more]

THE HISTORY OF NEW HOLLAND, from its First Discovery in 1616, to the Present Time. With a Particular Account of its Produce and Inhabitants; and a Description of Botany Bay: also, A List of the…[more]

Mitchell's exceptional map of New South Wales was first issued in 1834, being without doubt the most detailed accurate map of New South Wales up to that point. Interestingly this issue of the map…[more]

A beautiful large world map by Austrian mapmaker Heinrich Keller. Interestingly as this map was printed early in 1814 the detail of Australia shows a pre Flinders Australia with the French claim…[more]

Lotter's map of the world in ovaloid projection shows the track of Cook's first voyage.The later editions of the map continued to update the map especially using Cook's discoveries.

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Gore embeded in text by Coronelli. A Gore was a map that was engraved to be adheared onto a sphere to make a globe. Globe making was expensive for both the producer and buyer and so many map…[more]

One of the most important books written on the initial settlement of Australia in 1788 with detailed accounts of the people, animals and plants encountered in both Port Jackson and on Norfolk…[more]

The first published chart of the east coast of Australia .

The first published full-scale map of the east coast of Australia and it is based on the charts drawn by Cook during the…[more]

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The only Dutch printed map showing the 1606 discoveries of Willem Jansz, who in the Duyfken is attributed as making the first recorded European discovery in Australia on Cape York Peninsula.

Cook and Roberts' world map was first published in 1784. This edition by Faden was updated to include new discoveries. One of the new discoveries inlcude the inclusion of Lord Howe Island,…[more]

Australia is shown with north oriented to the left .

The prototype of De Wit and Ottens' impressive map is Goos' 1666 map of the East Indies which also had Australia shown with north…[more]

Flinders' chart in his ship the 'Investigator' (1802) of the central/northern Queensland coast shows the region between Cape Manifold and Cape Grafton as charted by both Cook and Flinders.…[more]

Munster 's world map in ovaloid projection is one of the most sought after sixteenth century maps. Unlike many of its contemporaries, the great southern land is completely omitted.

Sea chart of the Pacific, filled with some of the most famous cartographic misconceptions. California is an island; the northen coastline of Australia is shown, with Tasmania a long way away from…[more]

An exceptional chart of Australia and one of the very few pre settlement maps that focus exclusively on the Australian continent. This rare piece was included in the important book "The history of…[more]

This map is the centrepiece to the Cook collection and is said to have been the most accurate map of the world on its publication in 1784.

The map was drawn up by Henry Roberts after work…[more]

A rare first edition of the exploration of Torres Strait, The Great Barrier Reef, and the coasts of New Guinea during the 1840s by HMS Rattelsnake on their hydrographical voyage as set about by…[more]