Bowles New Four-Sheet Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection Exhibiting the Several Quarters of the Globe Divided into their respective Empires, Kingdoms, States, &c. agreeable to the latest Treaties and Political Regulations now existing; Together

Impressive four sheet world wall map with, numerous compass roses, a decorative title with two seaman holding a chart and sextant, published by Bowles and Carver. This is a rare early issue of this map with the date 6 April 1795 printed on both lower sheets as listed in the firms catalogue of the same year. Australia is shown with the discoveries of Abel Tasman on his first and second voyages 1642-44. The east coast of Cape York where Janz visited in 1606 is named ‘’. New Zealand and the east coast of Australia are shown according to the discoveries made by James Cook on his first voyage 1768-1771. Van Diemen’ Land is shown joined to the mainland and the uncharted coast of southern Australia is depicted as an imaginary line. Also noted are the erroneously-charted Trial Islands near present-day Dampier, named after the English ship the Trial wish was wrecked there in 1622. The map also shows the tracks of Cook’ three voyages and those of numerous others including, Bougainville 1776-79, Anson 1742, Byron 1765, Wallis 1767, Moore &amp Smith 1746-47 and Phipps 1773. There are several interesting quotes from Cook’ journal in the southern Pacific Ocean such as ‘ of ice’, ‘Many Islands and Firm Ice’, indicating how close Cook came to discovering Antarctica (just 65km). Elaborate explanation for the calculation of the conversion of the distance between two places on the same degree of latitude are found at the lower left and right.