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C1683
Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie.
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 - 1706)
C17th map showing the Dutch discoveries of Jan Cartenszoon in the Pera and the Arnhem on the coast of Queensland and New Guinea. Cartenszoon had left Ambon on 21 January 1623 and reached the western side of Cape York Peninsula on 12 April. On this … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie.
Date:
C1683
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 - 1706)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
113mm
x 153mm
Paper Size:
136mm
x 210mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1683
Description:
C17th map showing the Dutch discoveries of Jan Cartenszoon in the Pera and the Arnhem on the coast of Queensland and New Guinea. Cartenszoon had left Ambon on 21 January 1623 and reached the western side of Cape York Peninsula on 12 April. On this map, the peninsula known today as Cape York is named ‘Carpentarie’, after the then governor-general of the VOC Pieter Carpentier. ‘Carpentaria’ was later applied to the adjacent gulf. On 7 May, Cartenszoon named the Coen River (present-day Archer River) near Weipa.
Published in Mallet, Description de l’Univers, Paris.
References
CLA MOTA pg 89 ill 6.23, HOW EOE C51 pg 193, NLA OMD Bib ID 589963
Collections:
National Library of Australia: Bib ID589963
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706)
French engineer, taught mathematics & geometry at the court of Louis XIV & was an expert in fortifications. He produced an atlas, “Description DE L’Univers Conten Du Monde..”
