C1785

Carte de la Terre Van-Diemen.

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French edition of Captain Tobias Furneaux map of southern Tasmania made after HMS Adventure separated in March 1773 from Cook’s third voyage. Inset coastal profiles View of Van Diemen’s Land over Fluted Cape, when South Cape bears NNE1/2E distant 7 … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Carte de la Terre Van-Diemen.

Date:

C1785

Mapmaker:

William Bligh (1754 - 1817)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Hand coloured copper engraving.

Image Size:

370mm

x 235mm

Paper Size:

381mm

x 252mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1785

Description:

French edition of Captain Tobias Furneaux map of southern Tasmania made after HMS Adventure separated in March 1773 from Cook’s third voyage.

Inset coastal profiles View of Van Diemen’s Land over Fluted Cape, when South Cape bears NNE1/2E distant 7 miles. View of Land over fluted Cape when Penguin Island bears NWbW 1 1/2mile distant. View of Van Diemen’s Land when the Mewstone bears N1/2E distant 5 miles.

From Cook, Cartes et figures du voyage dans l’hemisphere austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux de roi, l’Aventure & la Resolution en 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775.

References:
Tooley, R.V. The Mapping of Australia. London 1979 :: T346.

Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 2820776

William Bligh (1754 - 1817)

Bligh was a naval officer and governor. He was descended from a family settled in St Tudy, Cornwall, since 1680, whose members had been mayors of Bodmin in the sixteenth century. William was entered in H.M.S. Monmouth on July 1762, was paid off the following February, and joined the navy on 27 July 1770. Since there was no vacancy for midshipmen, he was rated 'able-seaman', but he messed with the former and officially became one in February 1771. On 17 March 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution, on James Cook's third voyage. On the voyage made a number of the charts.

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