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Title: Ms. maps showing Australia [cartographic material] : (reduced facsimiles).
Scale: Scale not given.
Publisher: [England : British Museum, 1891?]
Date: 1886 - 1891
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 6 maps : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.+ explanatory notes (4 p. ; 33 x 54 cm.)
Notes: Facsimiles from originals in the British Museum. Published to accompany E.D. Morgan's Remarks on the early discovery of Australia which was presented at the International Geography Congress, 1891 at Berne in Switzerland.

Maps by Jean Rotz reduced from his original atlas in Ms. Department, British Museum, Photo Praetorius. Other maps are reduced facsimiles of part of Descelier's map of the world.

Accompanied by explanatory notes: Early charts of Australia (from The Sydney Morning Herald, April 15, 1886).

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057; Library does not hold The Dauphin map (2 parts).
Subjects: Australia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800 -- Facsimiles.
Australia -- 1542-1550 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 2057
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057