Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 9

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(AUSTRALIA.) Bowen, Emanuel. A Complete Map of the Southern Continent Survey'd by Capt Abel Tasman & Depicted by Order of the East India Company in Holland. Engraved folding map. 16x20 inches sheet size, ample margins; light staining and offsetting, few unobtrusive tears closed on verso, minor wormholes. London, 1744

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The first English map of Australia: "It is impossible to conceive a country that promises fairer from its scituation than this of Terra Australis; no longer Incognita."