C1812

Oceanique Centrale.

Mapmaker:

Pierre Lapie (1779 - 1850)

The second earliest published map showing the completed Australian coastline. Nice example of the second earliest, published map of a completed Australian coastline and which shows the results of of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin’s who … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

Oceanique Centrale.

Date:

C1812

Mapmaker:

Pierre Lapie (1779 - 1850)

Condition:

In good condition.

Technique:

Copper engraving hand coloured

Image Size: 

320mm 
x 250mm

Paper Size: 

350mm 
x 265mm
AUTHENTICITY
Oceanique Centrale. - Antique Map from 1812

Genuine antique
dated:

1812

Description:

The second earliest published map showing the completed Australian coastline.

Nice example of the second earliest, published map of a completed Australian coastline and which shows the results of of the French expedition under the command of Nicholas Baudin’s who completed the chart of the southern coasts from Nutys Land to Bass Strait, the results of which completed the coastal mapping of Australia.

This map precedes Flinders’s map of the continent as the publication of Flinder’s important atlas was in 1814, delayed by his imprisonment at Mauritius by the French. The cartouche in the lower left corner comprising an Australian Aboriginal man carrying a shield and spear, a banded hare-wallaby, a wombat and a canoe, all originally appeared as illustrations in the official published accounts of the Baudin voyage.

The coast is coloured in sections to reflect various historical discoveries made by the Dutch, English and French.

From Conrad Malte-Brun’s, Atlas Complet du Precis de la Geographie Universelle. Paris 1812.

Tooley, 844,  Prescott 1812.36

Collections:
National Library of Australia:  Bib ID1731105
State Library of NSW: (AuSN)b29962675-61slnsw_inst

Mapmaker:

Pierre Lapie   (1779-1850)

Lapie was the first Geographer to the King of France and the Chief of the Topographic section of the War Office, as well as being a military cartographer and publisher from the 1820’s, in Paris. This map is from hisAtlas Universalwhich he issued with Alexandre Emile.

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