L’ hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes

L’Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726, cartographer.

Bouvet de Lozier, Jean-Baptiste Charles, 1705-1786.

Hand coloured ; 43 cm in diameter, on sheet 48 x 54 cm Amsterdam: 1730.

Antarctic hemisphere projection within ruled borders. Illustrates the World to the equator
with land masses outlined in period colour. The only Antarctic land mass noted is a vague
outline of the “Cape des Terres Australes” south and west of the Cape of Good Hope.
It shows no southern borders similar to the earlier theoretical Great South Land masses.
Australia is shown without the east coast and New Guinea suggestively attached to it.
Dampier & Tasman’s routes are depicted. The New Hebrides are titled “Terre Australis
ou St. Espirit” and suggest a possible east coast of Australia with large rivers,

Condition:   Excellent and attractively framed