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Auction: 341 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1357

Nouvelle Hollande - Océanique Centrale. Engraved by J.B. Tardieu after Giraldon. Published by Conrad Malte-Brun in his Atlas Supplementaire du Precis de la Geographie Universelle, Paris ca. 1812. 11 /34 x 8 5/8 (not including margins). Copperplate, outline color. An unusual French map of Australia; longitude lines measured from the Paris meridian. Vignette of Aborigine at lower left, his canoe emblazoned OCÉANIQUE CENTRALE, with a trio of antipodean marsupials - kangaroo, wombat and platypus. Framed, 14 5/8 x 11 ¾". Minor age toning in margins. About Very Good.

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