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Important, double hemisphere world map, with the tracks of Drake, Schouten and Dampier, (curiously the wording identifying the tracks is mostly written upside down). Australia is shown with the discoveries made by Abel Tasman in 1642-1644 and records William Dampier’s landfall on the Australian coast near present day Broome, noted on the map as Deep Bay.
On 4 January 1688, Dampier had caught sight of the western coast of Australia, in latitude 16 degrees 50 minutes. The Cygnet approached the shore and then coasted south until a point was reached whence the land trended east and southerly. Three leagues east of this point they came to a ‘pretty deep bay, with abundance of islands in it.’ On 5 January they anchored two miles from shore, at the north-western corner of King’s Sound, now the town of Derby. ‘New Holland’ wrote Dampier ‘is a very large tract of land. It is not yet determined whether it is an island or a main continent; but I am certain that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, America. This part of it that we saw is all low, even land, sandy banks against the sea, only the points are rocky, and so are some of the islands in this bay.’
Dampier had set out on 14 January 1699 for New Holland via the Cape of Good Hope, following the old Dutch route to the Indies via the Indian Ocean, he then passed between Dirk Hartog Island and the western Australian mainland at Shark Bay on 6 August 1699. Dampier then sailed north-east, reaching the Dampier Archipelago and Lagrange Bay, just south of Roebuck Bay. From there he headed northward for Timor and on 3 December 1699 rounded New Guinea and sailed along its north coast. He traced the south-eastern coasts of New Hanover, New Ireland and New Britain, charting the Dampier Strait between these islands (now the Bismarck Archipelago) and New Guinea.
This map was originally issued in the first edition of Harris’s Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca 1705, without the extended title or the tracks of Drake, Schouten and Dampier, nor recording Dampier’s visit to Australia.
From John Harris Navigantium Atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca.
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Hill 775, NLA p.182.
Moll was a Dutch emigre who came to London about 1680 following the Scanian Wars, he first worked as an engraver for Moses Pitt, later setting up his own business and becoming, after the turn of the century, the foremost map publisher in England. As his fame grew he became a well known figure at in the group of Intelligencia who gathered at Jonathon's Coffee House in Exchange Alley or Change Alley. This narrow alleyway connecting shops and coffeehouses in an old neighbourhood of the City of London, served as a convenient shortcut from the Royal Exchange on Cornhill to the Post Office on Lombard Street. Shops once located in Exchange Alley included ship chandlers, makers of navigation instruments such as telescopes, and goldsmiths from Lombardy in Italy. The coffee houses of Exchange Alley, especially Jonathan's and Garraway's, became an early venue for the lively trading of shares and commodities. Moll was able to obtain crucial information from the lively commercial and intellectual scene in the area. Moll was at the forefront of map making during his working life and his maps reflect his ever inquisitive nature.
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