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“Carta della Nuova Zelanda” Jean François de la Harpe, 1785

$1,300

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Jean Francois de la Harpe

Early Italian chart of New Zealand after Captain Cook
Carta Della Nuova Zelanda 1785. Venice, 1785.

Cook’s map of New Zealand, with Stewart Island conjecturally joined to the mainland,
Banks Peninsula marked as an island. Published in the ‘Compendio della Storia Generale de
Viaggi…’, by Vincenzo Formaleoni , an abridgement of Prévost’s ‘Histoire Generale des Voyages’.

Image size:  295 mm x 235 mm

Condition: Some spotting on the image (much more severe than appears on the photo)
Attractively framed and could be defoxed (we have an expert and reasonable restorer nearby)