Price: £3,500.00

• Date: 1744
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: Uncoloured
• Size: 38 x 49 cm

Title: 'A Complete Map of the Southern Continent '.

The first English map of New Holland was engraved by Emmanuel Bowen for the revised edition of John Harris' Complete Collection of Voyages. Bowen, one of the leading printsellers and engravers, copied the French man Thevenot to show the Dutch discoveries up to 1644 and included two long legends. The text includes reference to 'the best climate in the world', 'according to Coll. Purry'. Purry was a former employee of the VOC (Dutch East India Company) interested in attracting the Dutch, French and English to settle in Nuyts' land—the text on the map claimed the best climate as being between 35° north and south of the equator.

In excellent condition.