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C1808
A New and Accurate Map of the Islands and Channels between China and New Holland.
Mapmaker:
Thomas Brown (1764 - 1820)
Rare map showing northern Australia and East Indies. From Brown A General Atlas being a collection of maps of the world quarters, the various empires, kingdoms states in the known World. Edinburgh.
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Full Title:
A New and Accurate Map of the Islands and Channels between China and New Holland.
Date:
C1808
Mapmaker:
Thomas Brown (1764 - 1820)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving hand coloured
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1808
Description:
Rare map showing northern Australia and East Indies.
From Brown A General Atlas being a collection of maps of the world quarters, the various empires, kingdoms states in the known World. Edinburgh.
Mapmaker:
Thomas Robert Brown (1764-1820)
Son of the Edinburgh bookseller James Brown who as in Parliament Close before 1773. Admitted a burges of the city 2 November 1786, described as an angraver. Married Elizabeth Swinton at Canongate Kirk 7 Aug 1789. A member and secretary of teh Edinburgh Booksellers Scoiety 18 November 1790. Brown acted as the Edinburgh agent of John Ainslie’s later maps and William Faden his agent in London. He died at Gayfield Square 7 August 1820, aged fifty six, leaving a personal estate of £2,532. He was succeeded by his apprentice and nephew, William Swinton.
