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Table of Contents

Principal partner's foreword / Andrew Smith
Foreword / Anne-Marie Schwirtlich
Mapping our World / Nat Williams
Terra Incognita To Australia / Martin Woods, Susannah Helman
The Early Printed Maps Collection of The National Library of Australia / Martin Woods
Part I
The Very First World Map? Late Babylonian map of the world
Tjapangati's Map; Jon Rhodes, The maps to Marruwa
Collaborations; Four maps from the Daisy Bates Collection
Stories From The Night Sky; Artist unknown, The Milky Way; Gulbidja Bara, The Magellanic Clouds
We Are All Navigators; Michael Nelson Jakamarra, Five Dreamings
The Antipodes; Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
The Habitable World; Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia
Part II
The T-O Map; St Isidore of Seville, The Etymologies
Updating The Roman World; Anglo-Saxon world map
The World In Miniature; Psalter world map
A Beatus Map; Beatus de Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse
From Star-Taker To Sextant; ibn Ahmad Khalaf, Astrolabe
Squeezing An Encyclopaedia Into A Map; Ramsey Abbey Higden map
Part III
Rediscovering Ptolemy; Claudius Ptolemy, Cosmographia
The Riddle Of Cattigara; Lorenz Fries, Map of Asia beyond the Ganges
Heavenly Woodcuts; Hartmann Schedel, Nuremberg Chronicle
Qui Comenza El Mar Scuro: Here Begins The Dark Sea; Fra Mauro, Map of the world
A Benedictine Monk's World View; Andreas Walsperger, World map
A Catalan Merchant And His Markets; Petrus Roselli, Sea chart of the Mediterranean
The Southern Cross Revealed; Andrea Corsali, Letter to Giuliano de Medici; C. Julius Hyginus, Poetica Astronomica
A Matter Of Perspective; Johannes Honter, The Southern Constellations
New Constellations; Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Celestial globe
Measuring The Southern Skies; Johann Bayer, Uranometria
Spheres Of Influence; Diogo Ribeiro, Planisphere
Far From Lisbon; Diogo Homem, Chart of the Pacific Ocean and Chart of the North Indian Ocean, China Sea and part of the Pacific Ocean
Reconciling Columbus And Ptolemy; The Gilt Globe
Henry Viii's Atlas; Jean Rotz, The Boke of Idrography
The Mysterious 'Iave La Grande'; Harleian or Dauphin map
Terra Australis Not Yet Known; Oronce Fine, The New World of Countries and Islands Unknown to the Ancients
Where In The World Was India South? Heinrich Bünting, Cosmographia Universalis
The Mercator Projection; Gerard Mercator, A new and augmented representation of the world
Rethinking The Southern Continent; New Guinea and Polar hemispheres
Ortelius' Great World Map; Abraham Ortelius, New world map
The First Modern Atlas; Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Australia In 1545; Cyriaco Jacob zum Barth, Astronomia: Teutsch Astronomei
Part IV
The Indian Ocean World; Petrus Plancius, A new world map, updated in many places; Jan Huygen van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies
Austrialia Del Espiritu Santo; Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Memorial to Philip III of Spain
Hessel Gerritsz, Master Cartographer; Hessel Gerritsz, Chart of Eendracht Land; Chart of the Malay Archipelago and Australia
For The Dutch Republic, The Great Pacific; Hessel Gerritsz, Map of the Pacific Ocean
At A Safe Distance; Johannes Janssonius, The East Indies; Cornelis Danckerts and Melchior Tavernier, Map of the entire world
Hartog's Discovery; Journal of the Nassau Fleet in the years 1623, 1624, 1625, and 1626
The Company; Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), VOC bond for 12,000 gulden; Jetso van Vos, VOC ship's log
A Journey To The East Indies; Isaak de Graaf, From the Cape of Good Hope to the Sunda Strait
A Stolen Chart; Isaak de Graaf, The Indian Ocean showing routes between the Cape of Good Hope and the Sunda Strait
Shipwrecked; François Pelsaert, The Unlucky Voyage of the Ship Batavia; Bellarmine jug and cob from the wreck of the VOC ship Vergulde Draeck
Tasman's Journal; Abel Jansz. Tasman, The Huydecoper Journal
New Holland's Birth Certificate; Joan Blaeu, Eastern and Asian archipelago
Tasman's Legacy; Abel Jansz. Tasman, Bonaparte Tasman map
'Terre Australe', East Of New Holland; Melchisédech Thévenot, Account of Diverse Curious Voyages
'Lovers Of Praiseworthy Sea-Navigation'; Hendrick Doncker, Sea Atlas; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart; Pieter Goos, East Indies navigation chart
Antarctic World Views; Henricus Hondius, Polus Antarcticus; Nicholas Visscher, A new and very accurate map of the world
The Grandest Of Maps; Justus Danckerts, Wall map of the East Indies
An Unfinished Beauty; Johannes Loots and Romeyn de Hooghe, Unfinished wall map of the world, eastern hemisphere
A Tale Of Two Worlds; Johannes Janssonius, Atlantis Majoris
Proof Of The Daring Spirit Of His Ancestors; The De Vlamingh Plate
The Last Great Dutch Voyage To Australia; Gerard van Keulen, The South Land visited by Willem de Vlamingh in the months of January and February 1697
Part V
The Secret Of The Sea; Sir Robert Dudley, The Secret of the Sea
The Elusive East Coast Of New Holland; John Thornton, A draught of the coast of New Holland, and parts adjacent; Samuel Thornton, The English Pilot
'To See What That Country Would Afford Us'; William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World; Mariner's callipers
Master Globe-Maker; Vincenzo Coronelli, Globe gores
New Holland According To The Globe And Sun; Richard Cushee, Terrestrial globe
Bel Et Utile; Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Reduced map of Australasia
'No Longer Incognita'; Emanuel Bowen, A complete map of the Southern Continent, survey'd by Capt. Abel Tasman
'Our Trusty Friend, The Watch'; Norman Banham, John Harrison's first and fourth marine timekeepers (replicas of H1 and H4)
On The Verge Of Greatness; Alexander Dalrymple, Chart of that part of Papua visited by M. Bougainville in 1768
Circumnavigating The World; Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Voyage Around the World
Hands Across The Sea ; Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette, Le Neptune Oriental
'Little Remains Now To Be Done'; James Cook (surveyor) and Isaac Smith (chartmaker), King George's Island or Otaheite; Newzeland; Part of the sea coast of New South Wales or the east coast of New Holland; A sketch of Botany Bay; Sea coast of New South Wales on the east coast of New Holland; Tupaia (surveyor) and James Cook (chartmaker), The Society Islands; Sydney Parkinson, View of part of the eastern coast of New Holland
'Any News Of La Pérouse?'; Jean Nicolas Buache, Map of the Pacific Ocean drawn by order of the King for the voyage of La Pérouse
A Revolution In Charting; Charles François Beautemps-Beaupré, Atlas of the Voyage of Bruny-Dentrecasteaux
The Baudin Expedition; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, Chart of the north river; Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (artist) and Claude-François Fortier (engraver), Coastal profiles of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland
An Account Of The Voyage To Terres Australes; Pierre Bernard Milius, Manuscript journal
Global Roaming; Louis Claude de Saulces Freycinet, General map of New Holland
Péron's Grand Statement; Plan of Sydney
'This Excellent Timekeeper'; Thomas Earnshaw, Box chronometer, serial No. 520; Long case astronomical regulator
Coastal Profiles; William Westall, Views on the north and south coast of Australia
Matthew Flinders: Intrepid Navigator; Matthew Flinders, Gulph of Carpentaria and the neighbouring parts; Part of the coast of New South Wales with its Barrier Reefs; Sheet V - South coast; South coast of Terra Australis; Sketches of the heads of No. 12 and No. 14 Inlets
Terra Australis Or Australia; Matthew Flinders, General Chart of Terra Australis or Australia.

Edition Notes

"This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mapping our world : Terra Incognita to Australia", on display at the National Library of Australia from 7 November 2013 until 10 March 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.

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Canberra, ACT
Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
912.94074
Library of Congress
GA1681 .M37 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxix, 256 pages
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL43255623M
ISBN 10
0642278091
ISBN 13
9780642278098
OCLC/WorldCat
870974980

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